
Text -- Proverbs 30:10 (NET)




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Without sufficient cause: for otherwise, in some cases this may be a duty.

By God, who is ready to plead the cause of the afflicted.

JFB: Pro 30:10 - -- Lest, however lowly, he be exasperated to turn on thee, and your guilt be made to appear.
Lest, however lowly, he be exasperated to turn on thee, and your guilt be made to appear.
Clarke -> Pro 30:10
Clarke: Pro 30:10 - -- Accuse not a servant - Do not bring a false accusation against a servant, lest thou be found guilty of the falsehood, and he curse thee for having t...
Accuse not a servant - Do not bring a false accusation against a servant, lest thou be found guilty of the falsehood, and he curse thee for having traduced his character, and in his turn traduce thine. In general, do not meddle with other people’ s servants.
TSK -> Pro 30:10
TSK: Pro 30:10 - -- Accuse not : Heb. Hurt not with thy tongue, Pro 24:23; Deu 23:15; 1Sa 22:9, 1Sa 22:10, 1Sa 24:9, 1Sa 26:19, 1Sa 30:15; 2Sa 16:1-4; 2Sa 19:26, 2Sa 19:2...

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Barnes -> Pro 30:10
Barnes: Pro 30:10 - -- Accuse not a servant - The prayer in Pro 30:8 does not shut out, sympathy with those who are less favored. Even the slave has a right to protec...
Accuse not a servant - The prayer in Pro 30:8 does not shut out, sympathy with those who are less favored. Even the slave has a right to protection against frivolous or needless accusation. Others, however, render the words Make not a slave to accuse his master, i. e., Do not make him discontented with his lot, lest he afterward curse thee for having made it worse than it was.
Poole -> Pro 30:10
Poole: Pro 30:10 - -- Accuse not a servant to wit, maliciously, rashly, or without just and sufficient cause; for otherwise, in some cases, this may be not only lawful, bu...
Accuse not a servant to wit, maliciously, rashly, or without just and sufficient cause; for otherwise, in some cases, this may be not only lawful, but a duty, as when a servant lives wickedly, or robs his master, or the like,
A servant whose condition is in itself mean and miserable, and therefore thou shouldst not make it worse without great and apparent necessity.
Curse thee desire God to curse and punish thee, which though it may be sinful in him, yet being deserved by thee, thou hast reason to fear and expect.
Be found guilty by God, who is ready to plead the cause of the afflicted, and upon strict search shall find thee guilty, and punish thee accordingly.
Haydock -> Pro 30:10
Haydock: Pro 30:10 - -- Accuse. Septuagint, "deliver not" to an idolater, Deuteronomy xxiii. 15. (Rabbins) ---
Servant. Add not to his affliction. (Worthington) ---
W...
Accuse. Septuagint, "deliver not" to an idolater, Deuteronomy xxiii. 15. (Rabbins) ---
Servant. Add not to his affliction. (Worthington) ---
We must suppose that the accusation is frivolous or false. (Lyranus) ---
A servant may do a person much injury: but this ought not to deter the other from performing what justice and charity require.
Gill -> Pro 30:10
Gill: Pro 30:10 - -- Accuse not a servant unto his master,.... Wrongly, rashly, and without any foundation, nor for any trifling thing; unless it be in a case of moment an...
Accuse not a servant unto his master,.... Wrongly, rashly, and without any foundation, nor for any trifling thing; unless it be in a case of moment and importance, when his master's business is sadly neglected, or he is injured in his property by him: especially care should be taken not to calumniate a servant, to abuse him with the tongue, as the word g signifies; the circumstance he is in should be considered, as a servant; and how severe masters are apt to be towards them, and therefore little matters should be hid from them; and much less should they be aggravated, and least of all should falsehoods be told of them. So Doeg the Edomite accused David to Saul, and the Pharisees accused the disciples of Christ to their Master, 1Sa 22:9; the apostle's advice is good, and agrees with Agur's, Rom 14:4;
lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty; or, "and thou shouldest sin" h; that is, afterwards; and so the curse come upon thee he has wished for: or the sense is, lest he should curse thee before men, and hurt thy character and reputation; or imprecate a curse from the Lord, which he may suffer to come upon thee for sin. Aben Ezra interprets this of a servant, that flies from Heathen countries to the land of Israel, to be made a proselyte of; who should not be discovered, and returned to his old master.

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NET Notes: Pro 30:10 If what was said were true, then there would be no culpability. But the implication here is that it was slander. And the effect of that will be a curs...
Geneva Bible -> Pro 30:10
Geneva Bible: Pro 30:10 Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, ( g ) and thou be found guilty.
( g ) In accusing him without cause.

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TSK Synopsis -> Pro 30:1-33
TSK Synopsis: Pro 30:1-33 - --1 Agur's confession of his faith.7 The two points of his prayer.10 The meanest are not to be wronged.11 Four wicked generations.15 Four things insatia...
MHCC -> Pro 30:10
MHCC: Pro 30:10 - --Slander not a servant to his master, accuse him not in small matters, to make mischief.
Matthew Henry -> Pro 30:10-14
Matthew Henry: Pro 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 ...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 30:10
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 30:10 - --
10 Calumniate not a servant with his master,
Lest he curse thee, and thou must atone for it.
Incorrectly Ewald: entice not a servant to slander ag...
Constable: Pro 30:1--31:31 - --V. TWO DISCOURSES BY OTHER WISE MEN chs. 30--31
Chapters 30 and 31 form a distinct section in Proverbs because n...

Constable: Pro 30:1-33 - --A. The Wisdom of Agur ch. 30
The most distinctive features of Agur's proverbs are his numerical style of...
