Proverbs 30:5

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Hence, () we must rest in the divinely revealed doctrine, which is pure and saving to all who trust in its Almighty Giver and Object. EVERY WORD OF GOD (IS) PURE - literally, melted in the fire like silver, so as to be purified of all dross of human error, impurity, deceit, or superfluity. The Word of God supplies the defect of human understanding which Agur complained of (Proverbs 30:2). HE IS A SHIELD - by His Word and His Spirit foiling the thrusts of Satan (; ;...

Verse Proverbs 30:5. _EVERY WORD OF GOD_ is _pure_] כל אמרת אלוה צרופה _col_ _imrath eloah tseruphah_, "Every oracle of God is purified." A metaphor taken from the _purifying of metals_. Every thing that God has pronounced, every inspiration which the prophets have received, is pure, without mixture of error, without dross. Whatever trials it may be exposed to, it is always like _gold_: it _bears the fire_, and comes out with the same _lustre_, the same _purity_, and the same _weight_. _HE_ IS _A SHIELD UNTO THEM_] And _this_ oracle among the rest. "He is the defence of _all_ them that put their trust in him." לכל _lechol, to all_, is added here by _nineteen_ of _Kennicott's_ and _De_ _Rossi's_ MSS.; for instead of לחסים _lachosim, to the trusters_, they

Out of this consciousness of the impotence of all man’s efforts after the knowledge of God rises the sense of the preciousness of every living word that God has Himself revealed, whether through “the Law and the prophets” or through “wise men and scribes.”...

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

EVERY WORD OF GOD [IS] PURE,.... The whole word of God. "All Scripture", given by inspiration of God, to which Agur directs, as giving the best account of God, of his name, nature, and perfections; of his Son, person, offices, and grace; being pure, very pure, "purified" z like silver, purified in a furnace of earth. The whole of Scripture is pure, free from all falsehood and error; coming from the God of truth, who cannot lie, and therefore called "the Scriptures of truth": every promise is pure as well as precious, made without dissimulation, faithfully performed, and all yea and amen in Christ; every doctrine is pure, free from the mixtures and inventions of men; the sincere milk of the word; consistent and all of a piece, not yea and nay; and tending to promote purity of heart and life; wholesome words, and doctrines according to godliness; see Psalms 12:6; he ...

TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

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

WORD. saying or utterance. Hebrew. _imrah._ App-73. The only occurrence of this word in Proverbs. GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4. The only occurrence of this title in Proverbs. Occurs forty-one times in Job, four times in Psalms, twelve times in the other books. PURE. tried [in. furnace]. Compare Psalms 12:6. UNTO THEM. Some codices read "unto all them". PUT THEIR TRUST. flee for refuge. Hebrew. _hasah._ App-69....

_pure_ Heb. PURIFIED. The image "hinted at" here is "expanded" (Bp Perowne) on Psalms 12:6 [Hebrews 7]: "The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried (same Hebrew word as here) in a furnace of (or, on the) earth, purified seven times....