Proverbs 30:11

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 30:10-14

Here is, I. A caution not to abuse other people's servants any more than our own, nor to make mischief between them and their masters, for it is an ill office, invidious, and what will make a man odious, Prov. 30:10. Consider, 1. It is an injury to the servant, whose poor condition makes him an object of pity, and therefore it is barbarous to add affliction to him that is afflicted: Hurt not a servant with thy tongue (so the margin reads it); for it argues a sordid disposition to smite any... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curseth their father ,.... A sort of men that neither fear God nor regard men; and are so inhuman as to be without natural affections to their parents; have no reverence of them, love to them, nor give them any honour or obedience; so far from it, that they curse their father that begot them; imprecate on him all the evils in life they can think of, and wish him out of the world; and doth not bless their mother ; cannot give her a good word, who bore them,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation - There are such persons in the world. In this and the three following verses the wise man points out four grand evils that prevailed in his time. The first, Those who not only did not honor, but who evil-treated, their parents. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:1-33

Part VII. FIRST APPENDIX TO THE SECOND COLLECTION , containing "the words of Agur." A short introduction, teaching that the Word of God is the source of wisdom ( Proverbs 30:1-6 ), is followed by apothegms on different subjects ( Proverbs 30:7-33 ). Cornelius a Lapide offers the following opinion concerning this appendix, which no one can hesitate to say is well founded, if he attempts to give it a spiritual interpretation, and to discern mysteries under the literal... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that eurseth their father. The words, "there is," are not found in the Hebrew, and the four subjects are without a predicate. Delitzsch calls the group "a mutilated priamel," which is explained to be a kind of gnomic poetry containing a series of antecedents or subjects followed by an epigrammatic conclusion applicable to all the antecedents. In the present ease the conclusion is wanting, so that we are left in doubt whether the author meant merely to de. scribe classes... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:11-14

Detestable phases of human character I. THOSE UNGRATEFUL TO PARENTS . ( Proverbs 30:11 .) "Without natural affection." Solon, asked why he had made no law against parricides, said that he could not conceive of any one so impious and cruel. In the Law of Moses the cursing of a parent was visited with the same punishment as the blaspheming of God (Le Proverbs 20:9 ; Proverbs 24:11-16 ; comp. Isaiah 45:9 , Isaiah 45:10 ; 2 Timothy 3:2 ). II. CRASS SELF - CONCEIT... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:11-31

contain six groups of four sentences each, each quaternion having a certain connection in language and concinnity of idea. First ( Proverbs 30:11-14 ) come four generations that are evil—four being taken as the symbol of universality. The sins herein specified had become so general that they affected the whole generation. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 30:11-14

Proverbs 30:11-14. There is a generation A sort of men, abominable both to God and men, which is implied concerning these and the following kind of sinners, mentioned in these verses; that curseth their father And mother too, as it follows; ungrateful and unnatural children. There are those that are pure in their own eyes Who not only pretend to others, but sincerely think within themselves, that they are truly religious persons, and in all respects such as they should be; and yet are... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:10-33

The wise sayings of Agur (30:10-33)It is wise not to be hasty in reporting a person for a supposed wrongdoing. Such action could rebound with harm to the talebearer if the person is innocent (10). The arrogant despise those whom they should respect, while considering that they themselves are not only blameless, but superior to their fellows. They are merciless in their treatment of those whom they should rather help (11-14).The expression ‘three things . . . and four’ in the proverbs that... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 30:11

A SERIES OF TETRADS(A tetrad is a wise saying with four lines or four elements.)1"There is a generation that curse their father, and bless not their mother.There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes,And yet are not washed from their filthiness.There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw-teeth as knives,To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.""In all of... read more

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