Proverbs 30:21

For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: FOR THREE (THINGS) THE EARTH IS DISQUIETED ... FOR A SERVANT WHEN HE REIGNED ( ); (AND) A FOOL, WHEN HE IS FILLED WITH MEAT - i:e., when he is in prosperity, and his appetites given loose rein to (). Both become insolent by elevation, which they know not how to use (cf. )....

Verse Proverbs 30:21. _FOR THREE_ THINGS _THE EARTH IS DISQUIETED, AND FOR FOUR_ WHICH _IT CANNOT BEAR_] This is another enigma. _Four_ things _insupportable to men_. 1. A _slave, when he becomes ruler_. 2. An _overfed fool_. 3. An _ill-tempered woman, when mistress of a_ _family_. And, 4. A _servant maid, when the rule of the house is_ _committed_ to her. 1. A _slave_, when he comes to _bear rule_, is an unprincipled _tyrant_. It has been often observed both in _America_ and in the _West Indies_, when it was judged necessary to arm some of the most confidential slaves, that no regiments were used _so cruelly_ in the _drill_, c., as those _black regiments_ that had _black_ _officers_. 2. _The overfed fool_. The intell

FOR FOUR WHICH IT CANNOT BEAR - Better: four it cannot bear. Here the common element is that of being intolerable, and the four examples are divided equally between the two sexes. Each has its examples of power and prosperity misused because they fall to the lot of those who have no training for them, and are therefore in the wrong place....

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

FOR THREE [THINGS] THE EARTH IS DISQUIETED,.... The inhabitants of it are made very uneasy; AND FOR FOUR [WHICH] IT CANNOT BEAR; they are a load and burden upon it, and are intolerable to those that dwell on it, and make them very uncomfortable....

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

_For_ "or _Under_," R.V. marg....

FOR THREE THINGS THE EARTH IS DISQUIETED— We have here an answer to another enigmatical question, What things are most intolerable? Which he tells us are, 1. A slave who bears rule; 2. A fool over-fed; 3. A vicious wife in a family; 4. A servant-maid become mistress of the house. This is very clear, and but too well confirmed by experience. A slave, or a man of an obscure condition, and of a mean servile soul, who domineers over others, is a subject of vexation and pain to them. If it be difficult to endure a master, even of illustrious birth, what must we think of a man who is lifted from servitude to a throne? he must have many degrees of excellence above another, not to be looked upon with jealousy and pain; and, unless endued with great grace, will be more cruel, and more insolent than another: _——————Regnabit sanguine multo Ad regnum quisquis venit ab exilio._ He will not be spari...

TEXT Proverbs 30:21-33 21. For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four, which it cannot bear: 22. For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food; 23. For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress. 24. There are four things which are little upon the earth, But they are exceeding wise: 25. The ants are a people not strong, Yet they provide their food in the summer; 26. The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks; 27. The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands; 28. The lizard taketh hold with her hands, Yet is she in kings-' palaces. 29. There are three things which are stately in their march, Yea, fo