the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Proverbs 30:26
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The shephanim are not a mighty people,Yet they make their houses in the cliff;
The shephanim are not mighty people, Yet they make their houses in the rocks;
The conies are but a feeble folke, yet make their boroughes among the rockes:
the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff;
The rock badgers [fn] are a feeble folk,Yet they make their homes in the crags;
rock badgers are not a powerful people, yet they make their houses in the rock;
badgers are small animals, but they make their homes in the rocks;
The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;
The conies are but a feeble folke, yet make they their houses in the rocks
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
The conyes are but a feble folke, yet make they their couches amonge the rockes.
The shephanim are not a mighty folk, Yet they make their houses in 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 conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;
The conies [are but] a feeble people, yet they make their houses in the rocks;
rock badgers are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags;
badgers, who seem to be weak, but live among the rocks;
the coneys, a species with little power, yet they make their home 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;
The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;
The rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the crags;
The badgers are not a strong people, but they make their houses in the rocks.
He that trusts to a bold heart, such an one is a fool: but he that walks in wisdom shall be safe.
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;
the badgers are a people without power, yet they make their homes in 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 who are not mighty, yet they set their house on the rock;
the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
The rock hyraxes are not a mighty people, Yet they make their houses in the rocks;
Rock badgers are not very powerful, but they can live among the rocks.
Rock badgers: they are not strong either, but they make their homes among the rocks.
hyraxes are not a mighty people, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
a hare, a puple vnmyyti, that settith his bed in a stoon;
the badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the rocks;
Conies [are] a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,
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Leviticus 11:5, Psalms 104:18
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So Jacob slept with Rachel, too, and he loved her much more than Leah. He then stayed and worked for Laban the additional seven years.
Then Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob.
She named him Zebulun, for she said, "God has given me a good reward. Now my husband will treat me with respect, for I have given him six sons."
Jacob replied, "You know how hard I've worked for you, and how your flocks and herds have grown under my care.
You had little indeed before I came, but your wealth has increased enormously. The Lord has blessed you through everything I've done. But now, what about me? When can I start providing for my own family?"
Then he placed these peeled branches in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, for that was where they mated.
Whenever the stronger females were ready to mate, Jacob would place the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of them. Then they would mate in front of the branches.
You know how hard I have worked for your father,
"What do you mean by deceiving me like this?" Laban demanded. "How dare you drag my daughters away like prisoners of war?
"I rushed away because I was afraid," Jacob answered. "I thought you would take your daughters 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.
