PROVERBS CHAPTER 30
The Maxims of Agur, the Son of Jakeh.
GOD’S WORD AS THE SOURCE AND DISPENSER OF ALL WISDOM. — V. 11. There is a generation, a detestable class of people, that curseth their father and doth not bless their mother, thus becoming guilty of one of the most atrocious forms of ungodliness. V. 12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, proud in their own estimate of self, puffed up in their own conceit, and yet is not washed from their filthiness, they are blind against their own shortcomings and transgressions, Rev. 3. 17. V. 13. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up, in haughty contempt of others. V. 14. There is a generation whose teeth are as swords and their jaw-teeth, specifically the canines, as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men, without the slightest show of compassion. This insatiable oppression is now characterized by a hold comparison.