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Filipino Cebuano Bible
Kawikaan 30:7
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
have: 1 Kings 3:5-9, 2 Kings 2:9, Psalms 27:4, Luke 10:42
deny me them not: Heb. withhold them not from me, Psalms 21:2
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:16 - deny me not
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Two [things] have I required of thee,.... Or, "have asked of thee a, O God"; as may be supplied, for the words are addressed to him. The following is a prayer made unto him, which contains the two requests here referred to; his requests are not many, his words are few; he did not make long prayers, or expect to be heard for much speaking;
deny me [them] not before I die; not that he thought he was near his end; nor is it his sense that he desired some time or other, at least before he died, that he might have these two requests granted him after mentioned; for what are poverty and riches, or convenient food, to a man just dying? but his meaning is, that he might be thus favoured as long as he lived; that all the while he was in the world, he might be kept from sin, and be free from anxious worldly thoughts and cares, having a moderate competency of good things: faith in prayer will have no denial; a wrestling Jacob will not let the angel go without a blessing; importunity in prayer gets much from the hands of God; "the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous man availeth much", James 5:16.
a שאלתי מאתך "postulavi a te", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Mercerus, Gejerus; "peto ab te", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "petii a te", Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Two things - The limitation of man’s desires follows naturally upon his consciousness of the limits of his knowledge.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 30:7. Two things have I required of thee — These two petitions are mentioned in the next verse; and he wishes to have them answered before he should die. That is, he wishes the answer now, that he may live the rest of his life in the state he describes.
