Proverbs 30                                                    Book of Proverbs  

Proverbs 30:1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

• Agur = I shall fear
• Probably a master of assemblies, as in Ecclesiastes 12:11
• Ecclesiastes 12:11 Though he humble himself, and go crouching, yet take good heed and beware of him, and thou shalt be unto him as if thou hadst wiped a looking glass, and thou shalt know that his rust hath not been altogether wiped away.
• Confession
• Nothing is know of him, but we accept all that was in the scriptures which the Lord Jesus referred to.
• We know as little of some of the Minor Prophets
• Prophecy = oracle or burden
• Ithiel = El (is) with me = God's with me
• Ucal = I shall be able

2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

• Surely = (True it is) that
• Man = an educated man, or pear
• A man = a commoner

3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

• Learn = have been taught; with emphasis on taught
• Nor have = Nor yet have I
• The Holy = Holy ones: or, the Most Holy One

4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?

• Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended?
• What is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
• God

5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

• God is pure = His Word
• Word = saying or utterance
• Pure = tried (in a furnace)
• Psalms 12:6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
• Unto them = Unto all them
• Put their trust = flee for refuge

6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

• Add thou not, A solemn warning based on Deut 4:12 And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
•  Reprove thee
Revelation 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
• If any man shall add unto these things. God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
• Emphatic = send a special reproof unto thee

7 Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:

• Verse 8 - Remove far from me vanity and lies
• Give me neither poverty nor riches = just give me what I need
• Deny = withhold

8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

• Remove far from me vanity and lies
• Give me neither poverty nor riches = just give me what I need
• Lies = word of falsehood
• Poverty  = need
• Feed me = cause me to be fed

9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

• Poor = from being dispossessed
• Take the name = assaileth God
• Not a reference to the second Commandment

10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

• Get all your facts right before you accuse someone
• Accuse not a servant = Get not a servant accused

11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

• Cursing of this type
• Generation = type
• There is a type that curseth their father and doth not bless their mother

12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

• Impurity
• This type think they know it all

13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

• Pride
• This type =  think they are better than anyone else

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.

• Violence
• They have no compassion, they don't care about the needy
• Poor needy - not the same word as in verse 8, 9

15 The horse leach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

• Insatiableness
• Horse leach = blood suckers = It is like the "flesh" in man
• In the natural and spiritual spheres "the dose has to be increased"
• This type = give me people

16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

• This class, they're unstable
• The grave = Sheol

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.

• Despiseth to obey = despiseth obedience to
• The raven, and these birds of prey always begin with the eyes of a carcase
• Mocking = A eyes that mocks, God doesn't like
• The choice is yours, follow God or Satan

18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

• Four things instrutable

19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

• Nature will always explain itself

20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

• Way = manner, or conduct
• Psalms 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
• No wickedness = nothing: or, as we say, "no harm"
• This is a person that thinks they do no wrong
• No one is perfect, they have left off God's word

21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

• Four things disquieting

22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

• A fool going look for trouble

23 For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

• She's unloved, you have trouble
• Is heir to = has dispossessed, or become heiress to

24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

• Four things little and wise
• Little upon the earth = earth's little ones
• Exceeding wise = In Hebrew = Wise, made wise = wiser than the wise

25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

• Ants are workers
• A people = so are those "made wise" who are God's People
• 2 Tim 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
• Ps 100:3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
• Not strong = very weak
• Roman 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
• Prepare = will prepare

26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

• Conies, about the size of a rabbit
• Inhabit clefts in the rocks; because having soft feet, they cannot burrow as a rabbit can
• So God's people abide in Christ's Rock
• Houses = rock - is singular = house rock
• They make their house in rock where no one can harm them
• But some men don't do this, because they love trouble

27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

• The locusts goes the ways of the wind
• No king = so we have no visible king, yet when "made wise" we see Him Who is invisible
• John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
  20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
  21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
• By bands = gathered together
• So will God's people, renders it by = at one word of command
• Same word as the assembling shout in
• 1 Thess 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
  17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
  18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
• In His own order, or rank

28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

• She take hold of her hands
• Christ is the member body of the church
• With her hands = So we, by the hands of faith, shall be found in the palace of the King of kings
• Kings' palaces = King's palace

29 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:

• Four things graceful
• Comely = it lack nothing

30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;

• A lion is king of the jungle, it's nature's ways
• God has gave us a mind to do all this

31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.

• If you do what's right

32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

• Foolishly = stupidly  things, or foolish things you bring wrath on yourself
• Thought evil = meditated (with evil intent)

33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

• If you abuse things too long, your going bring wrath on yourself

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

 

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25