the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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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 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;
Hyraxes—they aren't powerful, but they make their homes among the rocks.
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,
Contextual Overview
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Leviticus 11:5, Psalms 104:18
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He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me.
For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should 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.
