Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. THE EYE (THAT) MOCKETH AT (HIS) FATHER, AND DESPISETH TO OBEY (HIS) MOTHER, THE RAVENS OF THE VALLEY (WHICH BUILD THEIR NESTS IN SOLITARY VALLEYS) SHALL PICK IT OUT - he shall be put to a death of shame, and his carcass become a prey to ravenous birds (; ). The eye especially is attacked by birds of prey....

Verse Proverbs 30:17. _THE EYE_ THAT _MOCKETH AT_ HIS _FATHER_] This seems to be spoken against those who _curse their father_, and _do not bless_ _their mother_, Proverbs 30:11. _THE RAVENS OF THE VALLEY_] Those which frequent the places where dead carcasses and offal are most likely to be found. The _raven_, the _crow_, the _rook_, the _daw_, the _carrion crow_, and the Cornish _chough_, appear to be all of the same genus. Some of them live on _pulse_ and _insects_; others, the _raven_ in particular, live on _carrion_. _THE YOUNG EAGLES SHALL EAT IT._] The mother eagle shall scoop out such an eye, and carry it to the nest to feed her

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 30:1 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), is followed by apothegms on different subjects (Proverbs 30:7). 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 meaning: "Quarta haec pars elegantissima est et pulcherrima, aeque ac diffic

THE EYE [THAT] MOCKETH AT [HIS] FATHER,.... At his advice, admonitions, and instructions; looks upon him with scorn and disdain, and treats him as a weak, silly, old man: here Agur returns to the first generation he had observed; AND DESPISETH TO OBEY [HIS] MOTHER; her orders and commands: or, "the obedience of his mother" s; her discipline and instruction, having no regard to it. The word is rendered "gathering" in Genesis 49:10; and Jarchi interprets it of the gathering of wrinkles in her face: and so the Targum, Arabic, and Syriac versions render it, "the old age of his mother"; despising her as an old foolish woman; see Proverbs 23:22; להק, in the Ethiopic language, signifies to "grow old", from whence the word here used, by a transposition of letters, may be derived; and Mr. Ca

VI. THE WORDS OF AGUR THE SON OF JAKEH CHAPTER 30 Some hold that Agur is another name for Solomon. This opinion is also upheld by the Talmud, which speaks of six names which belonged to the King: Solomon, Jedidiah, Koheleth, Son of Jakeh, Agur and Lemuel. But this opinion cannot be verified, nor do we know who Agur the son of Jakeh was. The Septuagint and the Vulgate have translated the Hebrew words and formed a sentence out of them. “Agur” means “assembler” and Jakeh has the meaning of “pious,” so that some think that Agur means an unknown godly man who gathered these sayings and they were embodied in this book. We leave the name as it is, and believe that Agur, the son of Jakeh, is the name of the author of this chapter. “Whoever Agur was, he had a certain marked individuality; he combines meditation on lofty questions of theology with a sound theory of practical life. He was able to...

PROVERBS 30. THE SAYINGS OF AGUR. It is uncertain whether the title embraces the whole chapter or Proverbs 30:1, or Proverbs 30:1 only. Proverbs 30:1. The title is extremely obscure, and has been much discussed. The VSS show a wide divergence in their interpretation. It is perhaps simplest to accept the title as referring to some sage of repute among the Wisdom circles in the Greek period. Proverbs 30:1 b has been interpreted in many ways, the proper names being taken as significant words. The most interesting is that which represents the sage as saying (_cf. mg.),_ I have wearied myself, O God, I ha

DESPISETH TO OBEY. despiseth obedience to. THE RAVENS, &C. These birds of prey always begin with the eyes of. carcase....

_the valley_ Or, _brook_. It is implied that his corpse will lie unburied and exposed. Maurer and others quote here, in illustration of the fact that birds of prey attack principally the eyes, Catullus 107, 3: "Effossos oculos voret atro gutture corvus....

_PROVERBS 30:17_. D_ESPISETH TO OBEY HIS MOTHER_— _Despiseth the old age of his mother._ "They who are guilty of such enormous ingratitude to their parents, shall come to an infamous end, and their dead bodies shall be exposed for a prey to the ravens which frequent the brooks that run into the vallies, and to the young eagles, who shall pick out those eyes in which their scorn and derision of their parents was wont to appear....

TEXT Proverbs 30:11-20 11. There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother. 12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And yet are not washed from their filthiness. 13. There is a generation, of how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up. 14. 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. 15. The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, Yea, four that say not, Enough: 16. Sheol; and the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough. 17. The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obe