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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 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 ill office, invidious, and what will make a man odious, Prov. 30:10. Consider, 1. It is an injury to the servant, whose poor condition makes him an object of pity, and therefore it is barbarous to add affliction to him that is afflicted: Hurt not a servant with thy tongue (so the margin reads it); for it argues a sordid disposition to smite any... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 30:15-17

He had spoken before of those that devoured the poor (Prov. 30:14), and had spoken of them last, as the worst of all the four generations there mentioned; now here he speaks of their insatiableness in doing this. The temper that puts them upon it is made up of cruelty and covetousness. Now those are two daughters of the horse-leech, its genuine offspring, that still cry, ?Give, give, give more blood, give more money;? for the bloody are still blood-thirsty; being drunk with blood, they add... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 30:18-23

Here is, I. An account of four things that are unsearchable, too wonderful to be fully known. And here, 1. The first three are natural things, and are only designed as comparisons for the illustration of the last. We cannot trace, (1.) An eagle in the air. Which way she has flown cannot be discovered either by the footstep or by the scent, as the way of a beast may upon ground; nor can we account for the wonderful swiftness of her flight, how soon she has gone beyond our ken. (2.) A serpent... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 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 admirable, great in miniature, in which, as bishop Patrick observes, he teaches us several good lessons; as, 1. Not to admire bodily bulk, or beauty, or strength, nor to value persons or think the better of them for such advantages, but to judge of men by their wisdom and conduct, their industry and application to business, which are characters that... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 30:29-33

Here is, I. An enumeration of four things which are majestic and stately in their going, which look great:?1. A lion, the king of beasts, because strongest among beasts. Among beasts it is strength that gives the pre-eminence, but it is a pity that it should do so among men, whose wisdom is their honour, not their strength and force. The lion turns not away, nor alters his pace, for fear of any pursuers, since he knows he is too hard for them. Herein the righteous are bold as a lion, that they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 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 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 F7 אל תלשן "ne crimineris lingua", Montanus. signifies; the circumstance he is in should be considered, as a servant; and how... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curseth their father ,.... A sort of men that neither fear God nor regard men; and are so inhuman as to be without natural affections to their parents; have no reverence of them, love to them, nor give them any honour or obedience; so far from it, that they curse their father that begot them; imprecate on him all the evils in life they can think of, and wish him out of the world; and doth not bless their mother ; cannot give her a good word, who bore them,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes ,.... Not in the eyes of God, who sees the heart, and all the impurities of it, as well as of life and conversation; nor in the eyes of others, though such may appear outwardly righteous before men; but in their own eyes, in their own conceit and imagination, trusting in themselves that they are righteous: but such have not their eyes opened or enlightened to see the plague of their own hearts, the spirituality of the law of God, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:13

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. Above others, on whom they look with scorn and contempt; as those do who have more riches than others, and boast of them; they despise their poor neighbours, and disdain to look upon them: and such also who have more knowledge and wisdom than others, or at least think so; they are puffed up in their fleshly minds, and say of the illiterate or less knowing, as the proud Pharisees did, "this people, who... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are as swords ,.... As sharp as swords; like such the beasts of prey have; cruel, barbarous, and inhuman creatures; see Psalm 57:4 ; and their jaw teeth as knives ; exceeding sharp and biting: to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men : by their tyranny, oppression, and cruelty, to deprive them of the little they have; and even to take away their lives from them, and utterly destroy them; of this disposition are all... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 30:10-14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 30:15-17

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 30:18-23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 30:24-28

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 30:29-33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:14

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