the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Proverbs 30:26
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Hyraxes—they aren't powerful, but they make their homes among the rocks.
The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;
Rock badgers are not very powerful, but they can live among the rocks.
The conies [are but] a feeble people, yet they make their houses in the rocks;
The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;
The shephanim are not a mighty folk, Yet they make their houses in the rocks;
the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
a hare, a puple vnmyyti, that settith his bed in a stoon;
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
the conies are not a mighty species, yet they make their homes in the rocks;
badgers, who seem to be weak, but live among the rocks;
The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;
The conies are only a feeble people, but they make their houses in the rocks;
the coneys, a species with little power, yet they make their home in the rocks;
the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff;
badgers are small animals, but they make their homes in the rocks;
The rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the crags;
The conies are but a feeble folke, yet make they their houses in the rocks
The badgers are not a strong people, but they make their houses in the rocks.
the badgers are a people without power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;
The conies a people not mightie, yet make their houses in the rocke:
The conies who lack strength, and yet they make their houses in the rocks;
Rock badgers: they are not strong either, but they make their homes among the rocks.
The conies, a people of, no power, yet set they, among the crags, their house;
The rabbit, a weak people, which maketh its bed in the rock:
the badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the rocks;
The conies are but a feeble folke, yet make their boroughes among the rockes:
He that trusts to a bold heart, such an one is a fool: but he that walks in wisdom shall be safe.
hyraxes are not a mighty people,yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
the badgers are a people who are not mighty, yet they set their house on the rock;
rock badgers are not a powerful people, yet they make their houses in the rock;
Conies [are] a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,
The conyes are but a feble folke, yet make they their couches amonge the rockes.
The rock hyraxes are not a mighty people, Yet they make their houses in the rocks;
The rock badgers [fn] are a feeble folk,Yet they make their homes in the crags;
The shephanim are not mighty people, Yet they make their houses in the rocks;
The shephanim are not a mighty people,Yet they make their houses in the cliff;
Contextual Overview
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Leviticus 11:5, Psalms 104:18
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Jacob had marital relations with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban for seven more years.
Leah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a son for the sixth time.
Then Leah said, "God has given me a good gift. Now my husband will honor me because I have given him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.
"You know how I have worked for you," Jacob replied, "and how well your livestock have fared under my care.
Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?"
Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink.
When the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches.
You know that I've worked for your father as hard as I could,
"What have you done?" Laban demanded of Jacob. "You've deceived me and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war!
"I left secretly because I was afraid!" Jacob replied to Laban. "I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 Leviticus 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, Genesis 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 Psalms 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 Isaiah 33:16.
o שפנים οι χοιρογρυλλιοι, Sept. "choerogryllii", Vatablus; "mures montani", Junius Tremellius, Cartwright "arctomyes", Schultens. p Epist. ad Sun. & Fretelli, fol. 30, C. tom. 3. q Cuniculosa Celtiberia, Epigram. ad Contubernales, 35. v. 18. r Gaudet "in effossis habitare cuniculus antris", Martial. Epigr. l. 13. Ep. 58. s Phaedri Fab. 37, 80. t De Divinat. l. 2. c. 64. and so by Hesiod and Anaxilas in Athenaei Deipnosoph. l. 2. c. 22. p. 63.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Conies - See the marginal reference note.
