Proverbs 30:21 NLT,NIV,ESV

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 30:21-23

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 30:23. Odious, or unloved. MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Proverbs 30:21-23BURDENS GRIEVOUS TO BE BORNEI. It is sometimes dangerous to the peace of a community to raise a person from a low to a high position. To place a man who has never before crossed a horse, upon a high-spirited charger, is to create a source of danger both to himself and others. There is a strong probability that the unskilful rider will be thrown from his unaccustomed elevation, and so injure... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:1-33

Chapter 30This is the end of the proverbs that were gathered by Hezekiah's men. Now in the thirtieth chapter we have,The words of Agur ( Proverbs 30:1 )Whoever he is. He tells us who he is, but it really doesn't help.[he's a] son of Jakeh ( Proverbs 30:1 ),But I don't know who Jakeh is.even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal ( Proverbs 30:1 ),And men that I don't know. So yet God has seen fit to put this here in the scriptures. Agur declares,Surely I am more... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 30:1-33

Proverbs 30:1 . The words of Agur. The style of this book seems to be much older than that of Solomon. Its simplicity very well agrees with the times of the patriarchs, or when the judges presided. He confesses his ignorance of navigation. Ithiel, God with me; and Ucal, the mighty one, seem to have been either friends or pupils of Agur. But too many critics play and trifle with the import of their names. Thousands in Israel also put the name of God to the beginning, and sometimes to the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 30:21

Pro 30:21 For three [things] the earth is disquieted, and for four [which] it cannot bear: Ver. 21. For three things the earth is disquieted. ] Such trouble towns are odious creatures; the places where they live, long for a vomit to spew them out. As they live wickedly, so they die wishedly; there is a good world’s riddance of them, as there was of Nabal, and of those in Job 27:23 ; Job 27:15 , who were buried before half dead, being hissed and kicked off the stage of the world, as Phocas was... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 30:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 16:4 - her mistress Proverbs 6:16 - six Proverbs 19:10 - Delight Proverbs 30:15 - There read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 30:21

For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:Four — Which are intolerable in human societies. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 30:21-23

21-23. Three… four Hence follows another enigma, the four intolerable things. The earth is disquieted The land is disturbed, thrown into commotion. A servant when he reigneth When he becomes a ruler. Under Eastern governments slaves are sometimes promoted to office and become rulers. They are frequently the most imperious of tyrants. The same thing was, in the days of slavery, observed in this country when slaves were made overseers of their fellows, and in the West Indies, as Dr.... read more