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Text -- Proverbs 30:26 (NET)

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30:26 rock badgers are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags;
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Riddle | ROCK-BADGER | PALESTINE, 1 | MASSA | Industry | HARE | FOLK | Coney | Animals | AGUR | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

JFB: Pro 30:24-31 - -- These verses provide two classes of apt illustrations of various aspects of the moral world, which the reader is left to apply. By the first (Pro 30:2...

These verses provide two classes of apt illustrations of various aspects of the moral world, which the reader is left to apply. By the first (Pro 30:25-28), diligence and providence are commended; the success of these insignificant animals being due to their instinctive sagacity and activity, rather than strength. The other class (Pro 30:30-31) provides similes for whatever is majestic or comely, uniting efficiency with gracefulness.

JFB: Pro 30:26 - -- Mountain mice, or rabbits.

Mountain mice, or rabbits.

TSK: Pro 30:26 - -- Lev 11:5; Psa 104:18

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Pro 30:26 - -- Conies - See the marginal reference note.

Conies - See the marginal reference note.

Poole: Pro 30:26 - -- In rocky ground, or in the holes of rocks, for their safety against their too potent enemies.

In rocky ground, or in the holes of rocks, for their safety against their too potent enemies.

Gill: Pro 30:26 - -- The coneys are but a feeble folk,.... Or "rabbits"; though some think these creatures are not intended, because they are not so little as those with ...

The coneys are but a feeble folk,.... Or "rabbits"; though some think these creatures are not intended, because they are not so little as those with which they are ranked, the ant, the locust, and spider; and because of the places in which they burrow and make their houses, which though in holes and caverns of the earth, yet not in rocky but sandy places; rather therefore it is thought that the mountain mouse, or bear mouse o, as Jerom calls it, is meant; of which, he says p, there were great numbers in Palestine, and which had their habitations in the holes of rocks; though if Spain has its name from שפן, as some say, because of the multitudes of coneys in it; and hence that part of Spain called Celtiberia is called by Catullus q Cuniculosa; the coney may be thought to be meant by this word, and so it is translated in Lev 11:5; the only places where it is elsewhere used; and the word may be derived either from ספן, to "cover", by a change of the letters ש and ס; or from שוף, which has the signification both of breaking, and of hiding and covering, Gen 3:15; and this creature breaks the earth and hides itself in it r;

yet make they their houses in the rocks; it is usual with other writers to call the receptacles of any creatures, beasts, birds, or insects, their houses so we read of the house of the ant, and of the tortoise and snail s; and which, because it carries its house era its back, it is called by Cicero t "domiporta"; see Psa 104:17; the coneys make theirs in the rocks, to cure themselves from their more potent enemies; and thus what they want in strength is made up in sagacity, and by their wise conduct they provide for their safety and protection. These are an emblem of the people of God, who are a weak and feeble people, unable of themselves to perform spiritual duties, to exercise grace, to withstand the corruptions of their nature, resist the temptations of Satan, bear up under afflictive providences, and grapple with spiritual enemies, or defend themselves from them: but such heavenly wisdom is given them, as to betake themselves for refuge and shelter to Christ, the Rock of Israel; the Rock of salvation, the Rock that is higher than they; a strong one, on which the church is built, and against which the gates of hell cannot prevail: and here they are safe from the storms of divine wrath, and the avenging justice of God; from the rage and fury of men, and the fiery darts of Satan; here they dwell safely and delightfully, and have all manner of provision at hand for them; they are the inhabitants of that Rock, who have reason to sing indeed! see Isa 33:16.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 30:26 Modern scholars identify this creature with the rock badger (the Syrian hyrax), a small mammal that lives in the crevices of the rock. Its wisdom cons...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

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 30:24-28 - --Four things that are little, are yet to be admired. There are those who are poor in the world, and of small account, yet wise for their souls and anot...

Matthew Henry: Pro 30:24-28 - -- I. Agur, having specified four things that seem great and yet are really contemptible, here specifies four things that are little and yet are very a...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 30:24-28 - -- Another proverb with the cipher 4, its first line terminating in ארץ : 24 Four are the little things of the earth, And yet they are quick of w...

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...

Constable: Pro 30:10-33 - --3. Wisdom about life 30:10-33 Though his view of and awareness of God are very much behind what Agur said in the rest of this chapter, his counsel dea...

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Commentary -- Other

Evidence: Pro 30:25-28 Here are four virtues needed to be an effective witness: initiative ( 1Co 15:58 ); wisdom ( Mat 7:24 ); unity ( Phi 1:27 ); and persistence ( Act 4:18...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 30 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Pro 30:1, Agur’s confession of his faith; Pro 30:7, The two points of his prayer; Pro 30:10, The meanest are not to be wronged; Pro 30:...

Poole: Proverbs 30 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 30 Agur’ s prophecy, Pro 30:1 ; wherein he acknowledgeth his own ignorance, Pro 30:2,3 . The purity of God’ s word, with the happ...

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs 30 (Chapter Introduction) This and the following chapter are an appendix to Solomon's proverbs; but they are both expressly called prophecies in the first verses of both, by...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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