5Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
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As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Some make Agur to be not the name of this author, but his character; he was a collector (so it signifies), a gatherer, one that did not compose things himself, but collected the wise sayings and observations of others, made abstracts of the writings of others, which some think is the reason why he says (Prov. 30:3), “ I have not learned wisdom myself, but have been a scribe, or amanuensis, to othe…
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