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Selected Verse: Proverbs 21:30 - Amplified Bible©
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 21:30 |
Amplified Bible© |
There is no [human] wisdom or understanding or counsel [that can prevail] against the Lord. |
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King James |
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Men's best devices and reliances are vain compared with God's, or without His aid (Pro 19:21; Psa 20:7; Psa 33:17). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Two companion proverbs. Nothing avails against, nothing without, God. The horse is the type of warlike strength, used chiefly or exclusively in battle. Kg1 4:26; Kg1 10:26-28, may be thought of as having given occasion to the latter of the two proverbs. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
If we further seek for the boundaries, the proverbs regarding the rich and the poor, Pro 22:2, Pro 22:7, Pro 22:16, present themselves as such, and this the more surely as Pro 22:16 is without contradiction the terminus. Thus we take first together 21:30-22:2.
Pro 21:30
30 No wisdom and no understanding,
And no counsel is there against Jahve.
The expression might also be 'לפני ה; but the predominating sense would then be, that no wisdom appears to God as such, that He values none as such. With לנגד the proverb is more objective: there is no wisdom which, compared with His, can be regarded as such (cf. Co1 3:19), none which can boast itself against Him, or can at all avail against Him (לנגד, as Dan 10:12; Neh. 3:37); whence it follows (as Job 28:28) that the wisdom of man consists in the fear of God the Alone-wise, or, which is the same thing, the All-wise. Immanuel interprets חכמה of theology, תּבוּנה of worldly science, עצה of politics; but חכמה is used of the knowledge of truth, i.e., of that which truly is and continues; תבונה of criticism, and עצה of system and method; vid., at Pro 1:2; Pro 8:14, from which latter passage the lxx has substituted here גבורה instead of תבונה. Instead of 'לנגד ה it translates πρὸς τὸν ἀσεβῆ, i.e., for that which is 'נגד ה against Jahve.
Pro 21:31
31 The horse is harnessed for the day of battle;
But with Jahve is the victory,
i.e., it remains with Him to give the victory or not, for the horse is a vain means of victory, Isa 33:17; the battle is the Lord's, Sa1 17:47, i.e., it depends on Him how the battle shall issue; and king and people who have taken up arms in defence of their rights have thus to trust nothing in the multitude of their war-horses (סוּס, horses, including their riders), and generally in their preparations for the battle, but in the Lord (cf. Psa 20:8, and, on the contrary, Isa 31:1). The lxx translates התּשׁוּעה by ἡ βοήθεια, as if the Arab. name of victory, naṣr, proceeding from this fundamental meaning, stood in the text; תשׁועה (from ישׁע, Arab. ws', to be wide, to have free space for motion) signifies properly prosperity, as the contrast of distress, oppression, slavery, and victory (cf. e.g., Psa 144:10, and ישׁוּעה, Sa1 14:45). The post-bibl. Heb. uses נצח (נצּחון) for victory; but the O.T. Heb. has no word more fully covering this idea than תשׁועה (ישׁועה).
(Note: In the old High German, the word for war is urlag (urlac), fate, because the issue is the divine determination, and nt (as in "der Nibelunge Not"), as binding, confining, restraint; this nt is the correlate to תשׁועה, victory; מלחמה corresponds most to the French guerre, which is not of Romanic, but of German origin: the Werre, i.e., the Gewirre [complication, confusion], for נלחם signifies to press against one another, to be engaged in close conflict; cf. the Homeric κλόνος of the turmoil of battle.) |
17 A horse is devoid of value for victory; neither does he deliver any by his great power.
7 Some trust in and boast of chariots and some of horses, but we will trust in and boast of the name of the Lord our God.
21 Many plans are in a man's mind, but it is the Lord's purpose for him that will stand. Cross reference(s) provided by the translation: [Job 23:13; Ps. 33:10, 11; Isa. 14:26, 27; 46:10; Acts 5:39; Heb. 6:17.]
26 Solomon collected chariots and horsemen; he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, which he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as plentiful as the sycamore trees in the lowlands.
28 Solomon's horses were brought out of Egypt, and the king's merchants received them in droves, each at a price. Cross reference(s) provided by the translation: [Deut. 17:15, 16.]
26 Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
45 But the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan, who has wrought this great deliverance to Israel, die? God forbid! As the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his head perish, for he has wrought this great deliverance with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.
10 You are He Who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues David His servant from the hurtful sword [of evil].
1 WOE TO those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek and consult the Lord!
8 They are bowed down and fallen, but we are risen and stand upright.
47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands.
17 Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; [your eyes] will behold a land of wide distances that stretches afar.
31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but deliverance and victory are of the Lord.
14 I have counsel and sound knowledge, I have understanding, I have might and power.
2 That people may know skillful and godly Wisdom and instruction, discern and comprehend the words of understanding and insight,
28 But to man He said, Behold, the reverential and worshipful fear of the Lord--that is Wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
12 Then he said to me, Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your mind and heart to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come as a consequence of [and in response to] your words.
19 For this world's wisdom is foolishness (absurdity and stupidity) with God, for it is written, He lays hold of the wise in their [own] craftiness; Cross reference(s) provided by the translation: [Job 5:13.]
30 There is no [human] wisdom or understanding or counsel [that can prevail] against the Lord.
16 He who oppresses the poor to get gain for himself and he who gives to the rich--both will surely come to want.
16 He who oppresses the poor to get gain for himself and he who gives to the rich--both will surely come to want.
7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
2 The rich and poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all. Cross reference(s) provided by the translation: [Job 31:15; Prov. 14:31.]