Proverbs 30:5

Every word of God is pure,.... The whole word of God. "All Scripture", given by inspiration of God, to which Agur directs, as giving the best account of God, of his name, nature, and perfections; of…

Out of this consciousness of the impotence of all man’s efforts after the knowledge of God rises the sense of the preciousness of every living word that God has Himself revealed, whether through “the…

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…

pure Heb. purified. The image "hinted at" here is "expanded" (Bp Perowne) on Psa 12:6 [Hebrews 7]: "The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried (same Hebrew word as here) in a furnace of…