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箴言 27:26

26 小羊はあなたの衣料を出し、やぎは畑を買う価となり、

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Industry;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;   Garments;   Goat, the;   Lamb, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Farming;   Sheep;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Lamb, Lamb of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Weaving;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Lamb;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dress;   Proverb;   Proverbs, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Goat;   Sheep;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 31:20

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The lambs [are] for thy clothing,.... This is another argument, exciting to diligence in the pastoral calling, taken from the profit arising from it: the wool of the lambs, or rather "sheep", as many versions render it; of it cloth is made, and of that garments to be worn, to keep decent, warm, and comfortable; see Job 31:20;

and the goats [are] the price of thy field: these, being brought up and sold, furnish the husbandman with money to purchase more fields to feed his cattle on. The Targum is,

"the goats are for negotiation;''

with the price of them a man may purchase any of the necessaries of life for himself and family; these are negotiated, Ezekiel 27:21; the Syriac version is, "the goats are for thy food"; and so, between both the sheep and goats, man has both food and raiment; though his food is particularly mentioned in Proverbs 27:27.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The verses sing the praises of the earlier patriarchal life, with its flocks and herds, and tillage of the ground, as compared with the commerce of a later time, with money as its chief or only wealth.

Proverbs 27:23

The state - literally, face. The verse is an illustration of John 10:3, John 10:14.

Proverbs 27:24

Riches - The money which men may steal, or waste, is contrasted with the land of which the owner is not so easily deprived. Nor will the crown (both the “crown of pure gold” worn on the mitre of the high priest, Exodus 29:6; Exodus 39:30; and the kingly diadem, the symbol of power generally) be transmitted (as flocks and herds had been) “from one generation to another.”

Proverbs 27:25

Appeareth - Better, When the grass disappeareth, the “tender grass showeth itself.” Stress is laid on the regular succession of the products of the earth. The “grass” (“hay”) of the first clause is (compare Psalms 37:2; Psalms 90:5; Psalms 103:15; 2 Kings 19:26) the proverbial type of what is perishable and fleeting. The verse gives a picture of the pleasantness of the farmer’s calling; compared with this what can wealth or rank offer? With this there mingles (compare Proverbs 27:23) the thought that each stage of that life in its season requires care and watchfulness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 27:26. The lambs are for thy clothing — So many fleeces are given in some places as rent to the landlord.


 
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