Agur

Agur is called next to King Solomon and Lemuel as the author of the Bible book of Proverbs, a textbook of the Old Testament of the Bible, held sayings. On him the spells are projected to decline in the 30th chapter of the book.

Agur referred to in the first verse of Proverbs 30 as the son of Jake. Maybe he lived in the time between the reign of King Solomon and Hezekiah and dates back to the Arab tribal Massa. According to some Jewish scholars, he was named Agur, because he gathered knowledge from the Torah (Hebrew agar = " collect "). Agur is not to be confused with the Roman Office of the augurs.

Content of the 30th chapter of Proverbs ( " words of Agur " )

In verses 2-6 Agur compares his own wisdom with the wisdom of God and comes to a devastating judgment. She freely admits he his foolishness compared to the endless amount of the wisdom of God. Agur attracts a modest stock of his life and the search for God. It had not succeeded to gain wisdom or holiness. Therefore, he asks YHWH (God) in verses 7-9 is neither wealth nor poverty, lest he put in his fullness of God's existence in question. Agur seeks to prevent violating the first two of the Ten Commandments. But he notes that the word of God for the people who involve themselves in these words, can be a safe and protective shield.

As in the biblical books of Job and Jeremiah the wonders of nature and of Agur are described enthusiastically. He is impressed by the instinctive wisdom of small, inconspicuous creatures such as ants, cliff badgers and locusts (Prov 30:26 ff). Amazed, followed Agur the ways of the eagle in the sky and the snake on the rock. The order of God's creation is presented as proof of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, by which the people can only learn.

Quotes

• Two things I ask of you; refuse me not before I die: falsehood and lies remove word from me, poverty and wealth does not give me feed me with the bread allotted to me; so I'll be full and deny thee, and say, Who is Jehovah? and so I be poor and steal, and lay hands me the name of my God. (Prov. 30, 7-9, NIV ( 1905 edition ) )
• An eye that mocks a father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the brook must peck and eat the young eagles. (Prov. 30:17; Luther Bible ( 1545 edition ) )