TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Date: October 15, 2026. Lesson 204-2026. Proverbs 30:29-31. The Quiet Confidence of Those Who Know

Episode Date: October 15, 2026

In this edition of Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart examine Proverbs 30:29–31 and four examples Agur describes as “comely in going.” His emphasis is not on what they accomplish, but on how they carry themselves. The lion does not turn aside, the girded creature moves prepared, the he-goat leads from the front, and the king walks securely in his position. This is not arrogance or swagger; it is quiet confidence that has nothing to prove. For the believer, that confidence is borrowed. We can walk boldly not because we are strong, but because we know where we stand and Who stands with us. Lesson 204-2026 Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart You can partner with us by visiting MannaNation.com, calling 1-888-519-4935, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961 MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today! www.megafire.world Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves! www.AmericanReserves.com It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today! www.Amazon.com/Final-Day Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! www.books.apple.com/final-day Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. www.Sacrificingliberty.com

Welcome to Morning Manor. Welcome to Morning Manor Good morning. Welcome to the Morning Manor Breakfast Cafe. Come in, get a seat, open your Bible, or yourself a fresh cup of coffee or tea, and let's study the Word of God together. My name is Rick Wiles, my teaching partner is Dr. Raymond Burckhardt, and we have been teaching the Book of Proverbs for actually over one year,

and we are close to the end of Chapter 30, which we started three weeks ago. This year-long journey has been an exhausted study of wisdom and understanding. I hope it's had a positive influence, and impact on your life as it has on mind. Our lessons are archived at manna nation.com. Today's lesson number is 204-206. Let's pray and invite the Holy Spirit to preside.

Afterward, Dr. Kirkhart will introduce today's lesson. Our Father in heaven, Father, we thank you for this day, and we ask humbly for the presence of the Holy Spirit to bless this teaching of your word. Open our spiritual eyes and ears to receive wisdom and understanding and make it clear to all of us, Father, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen.

Welcome to Morning Manna, everyone. We want to get right into the lesson today. Today's lesson number is 204-26. And as Rick mentioned, all of these episodes are archived on manna nation.com. Today we're looking at Proverbs chapter 30. and looking at verses 29, 30, and 31. And as usual, I'm going to be reading from the King James and also from the Septuagint. So let's get started here today, verse 29 of chapter 30 of Proverbs.

There be three, oh well, yea, four are coming and going, a lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any. A greyhound, a he-goat also, and a king against whom there is no rising up. Now the Septuagint, and there are three things. which go well, and a fourth which passes along finally, a lion's wealth stronger than all other beasts, which turns not away, nor fears any beast, and a cock walking in boldly among the hens,

and the goat leading the herd, and a king publicly speaking before a nation. So today in our passage, Proverbs 30, 29 through 31, is Agar's fifth and final numerical saying, and it's the deliberate counterpart to the one before it. Now, if you recall in our progression here, back in verses 24 through 28, it described four creatures that are little and are exceedingly wise. An ant, coney, a locust, and a spider, or gecko, whatever it might be is in that fourth one. Weak things compensating with timing, position, coordination, and grip.

And we were very extensive in our coverage of that. Now, verses 29 through 31 described poor things that are stately. A lion, a creature who identity is disputed, a he-goat, and a king. Now, where the previous saying commended the wisdom of the weak, this one commends the bearing of the strong. Now, the passage also contains probably the most challenging Hebrew phrasing that we have in the entire chapter here. Verse 31 indicates two phrases that Bible scholars have debated for centuries. The word rendered greyhound and the phrase rendered against whom there is no rising up.

So the subtergent diverges substantially from the King James here. We're going to discuss those differences later in the lesson, but let's get started here with verse 29 as Rick opens up the Word of God. Rick, verse 29, there be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going. The Hebrew language in the old covenant repeats a single root word twice, and that's a key for our understanding of this verse. Metive means to be good, to be pleased. To be pleased. pleasing to do well. Agha, the teacher, says these things are good in their stepping

and good in their walking. Two words for movement appear. Hebrew. Sa'ad means a step, a pace, a stride. Lacquette. It's an ordinary verb for walking or going. So the subject is not what these creatures accomplish, it is how they move. Underline that, that's where this lesson is going.

It's not what they accomplish. It's the manner in which they moved. That's a more narrow observation than it first appears. Agar, the teacher, is not praising strength and victory or achievement. he is praising, bearing, how they carry themselves. The King James uses the word comely. It's an old English word, but it captures the meaning well. It means seemly, fitting, becoming, something that looks right. and there is a quality that all four of these creatures share, which the following verse is going to make visible to us as we progress in this lesson.

None of them purries, and none of them look over their shoulder to see who's approaching, who's following them, who's behind them. Each moves as though the ground belongs to it. In other words, we would say today, they got swag. They walk with swag. This is the entire subject of this proverb, the manner in which these creatures walk. And it reveals what it believes about it.

The way that they walk reveals what each creature believes about its own safety. Agar, the teacher in Proverbs 30, has gathered four examples of unburied confidence in order to commend the disposition rather than the power behind it. So again, this is the theme of this verse. Pay attention to how these creatures carry themselves, how they walk, their being, their swag,

their confidence as they move. Well, and now consider the theological framework for this saying, and it rests on the relationship between the inner security of something and their outward bearing. And throughout the scriptures, the Holy Bible repeatedly connects the two. For instance, this series has encountered the connection from the negative side to Proverbs. For instance, back in Proverbs 21, it says, the wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are as bold as a lion. So you got that picture of a lion there, kingly, stately. That verse opened, Proverbs 28, and it's the precise counterpart to this

same. The wicked man's bearing betrays him. He flees with nobody behind him, while the righteous man carries himself like the creature Agger is about to name first. So the connection between the two passages is the lion. Solomon used the image for the righteous, and Egger heads his list of stately things with the same animal, so it's no accident there. And here's the significance of this. Baring, if you will, is a symptom. So what do we mean by that? A man who is at peace with God carries himself differently than a man who is not, and the difference is visible without a word being spoken. Now, Psalm 271 supplies the logic behind this, if you will. The Lord is my light and my salvation.

Whom shall I fear? The Lord is my strength, my life, of whom shall I be afraid? Now, we have to have a necessary balance in here as well. Agar is not commending swagger so much. The next verses in this chapter, 32 and 33, explicitly condemn a man who lifts himself. up and the whole book of Proverbs warns against the proud

look. Okay, so the distinction here is between confidence and what one is, what they are, and the display of what one is not. The lion doesn't perform, Rick.

The lion is the lion. He possesses a quality about himself, a kingly, comely quality because he's a lion. It simply walks. and the walking is adequate enough, that is a king. And so the man this saying commends is not the one trying to appear permissible. He's the one man who has nothing to prove and therefore proves nothing.

Do you have that kind of confidence, students, that kind of confidence in your life? Doc, have you ever seen a lion running away and feet? No. No. You ever seen a lion hiding behind a rock terrified? No, doesn't happen. Have you ever seen a long man approached by another fearsome animal? And the lion shrinks back and a lion will take on a rhinoceros, a hippo, you know, any kind of large ant, it doesn't matter. We've seen videos of lions, you know, attacking crocodiles. I mean, lions don't run. So we get to verse 30.

A lion which is strong as among beasts and turneth not away for any. A lion simply doesn't react to whatever is in front of him. The Hebrew word here is for lion is lais. there are several Hebrew words in the Bible for a lion but this word describes a lion in its full strength this is a very strong Hebrew word for a lion strongness among beasts the Hebrew word

Gabor means mighty a champion warrior it's the same word used of King David's mighty men and describing Nimrod as a mighty hunter. Same word, Gabor. So Agar calls the lion the Gabor of the animal kingdom. It's supreme warrior. But the detail that Agar chooses to emphasize is not the lion's strength. It is what the lion does not do.

And that comes with this phrase, and turneth not a way for any. The lion simply does not turn back from before anything coming towards him. That lion either keeps walking towards it or stands its ground, it doesn't run. It doesn't hide. The verb that the Hebrew verb used here, Tarneth, okay, we interpreted by it, King James, just turn it. It means to turn, to return, to go back. A lion does not reverse course.

A lion does not have a reverse gear. A lion does not back up. Note the precision of this observation. Heger does not say the lion attacks everything or defeats everything or dominates everything, he says the lion does not step aside. The lion doesn't win every fight, but it doesn't run away from any fight. When something approaches a lion, the lion's path does not change. That's a description of bearing under approach. Any animal that must calculate whether to yield has its course determined partly by other animals. The lion's course is determined by the lion. Nobody else is influencing the lion's thinking about its path.

Our dear friend, Charles Spurgeon, long with the Lord centuries ago, great Reform Baptist preacher in England in the 19th century. He observed that the lion's dignity lies not in what it does to other creatures, but in what other creatures cannot do to the lion's plans. Amen. And that a settled man or woman, a man or woman who is settled in their position in Christ, acts the same way.

And Rick, let's look at the twin significances of using the lion as the illustration here. But first of all, the lion is an image of danger. In 1st Peter 5'8, he uses the lion here. He says, your adversary of the devil as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour. And then Proverbs 2815 compared a wicked ruler to a roaring lion. So there's a lion is dangerous. Can we admit that?

You don't want to mess with a lion. So there's a certain danger to a lion. But the lion is also an image of royal strength and righteous courage. Proverbs 21, the righteous are what? As bold as a lion. And Judah is described as a lion's wealth and Jacob's blessing in Genesis 49. So, and then again, you have Jesus himself, Revelation 5, 5, 5, where it says that he is the lion of the tribe of Judah. So the two uses, though, just because it's used for danger in one aspect and royalty and another aspect, doesn't mean they're in conflict.

Actually, they go together. The image carries the idea of unyielding power, and what matters is really whose power it is. So the specific quality that our teacher Agar names, this not turning away aspect, has a direct application to us as believers, and Scripture outlines it force, tells us all about it. Christ, on resolve, is described in exactly these terms. He steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. We read in Luke 951. in the Greek, it reads, Esterisant to Kosopon. He fixed his face. He did not turn.

Just like a lion doesn't turn away from danger. You had the Apostle Paul at Jerusalem, warned by prophecy of what awaited it. In Acts 21, verse 13, says, What mean ye to weep and to break my heart? For I'm ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

And then in his final letter, the Apostle Paul wrote to his young pastor, protege Timothy, in 2 Timothy 470, he says, I have fought the good fight. I have finished my course. Now, for the record,

scripture does not necessarily forbid retreat as such. There were times when Christ withdrew from hostile crowds. The Apostle Paul was let down over wall in a basket. David fled from Saul for years. And Proverbs 22, 3 commends the prudent man

who foreseeeth evil and hith himself. So there is room for strategic retreat. What Agar is commending is not an inability to withdraw. That's not it. It's the absence of a course determined by fear. Fearlessness. That's the essential quality there. The lion that does not turn away is not a lion that refuses all strategy.

It is a lion whose direction is its own. And so for those of you watching and listening today have been following us, I have a question for you. How much of your course has been set by what you've been avoiding? How much of your course has been set by what you've been avoiding instead of being fearless, knowing that you've been sent by God to face, whatever circumstance and trial you're facing right now. I like what you said,

what Agra commends is not an inability to withdraw. It is the absence of fear determining your course. Sometimes retreat is a strategic action for a future victory. There are times when it's not the right moment to confront your enemy. me and you have to retreat and wait on that time. You're not retreating because you're terrified. What Agra is talking about is not having fear. The lion does not have fear. So there are times when you have to retreat. You have to change your plans, but you don't do it out of fear. That's the thing we want to avoid. You should always be making your plans, your course corrections with confidence,

not with fear. The moment somebody around you starts talking fear talk, you've got to shut that down. All right, let's go to verse 31 and we'll look at the first part. Part A, a greyhound, a key goat also. The Greyhound. This is the part of verse 31 that's difficult to translate.

I am not going to pass myself off as a biblical scholar of ancient Hebrew. All I know is people who know a lot more than me can't agree on this one. So that tells me

something. even the most esteemed Bible scholars disagree with one another about is this a greyhound? But let's just jump into this thing and we'll take a look at it. We'll try to figure it out. The Hebrew word here means literally girded of loins, something belted, something belted, something sent. at the waste. Nothing in the Hebrew says Greyhound. That's where we

get conflict. Nothing in the ancient Hebrew words say Greyhound. What it says is girded of loins. But the good folks over there King James'

palace 500 years ago, they said, we've got to figure out what this critter is. We think it's a And they may be right. All I'm saying is nothing in the ancient Hebrew manuscript says Greyhound. It says girded of loins, which means something that has a belt, something that has, that the waste has been since there's something around the waist of this person. I'm sure how they got to Greyhaw. we'll see maybe we can figure this out.

So Bible scholars have debated over what this animal is. Some say a greyhound or a hunting dog. Because even among those who say it's a greyhound, even argue and say, well, it's not a greyhound, it's a hunting dog. It's narrow-waisted. It's high-chested. It's elegant in motion. And so people in this can,

or say the girded loins described the tucked abdomen of a greyhound. So that's the traditional King James reading. Others say it's a war horse. Job 39, verse 19 through 25, describe a horse's bearing in terms very close to agers. In Job, it says he mucked at fear and is not affrighted, neither turneth he back from the sword. It's a warhorse that doesn't run away when the battle starts. Then others say it's a strutting rooster.

Rooster with swag. And this is what the Septuagin says. So I'm going to go with the Septuagin. So the Septuagint interprets this as a rooster because the roosters gait, its way of walking among the hens, is proverbially self-assured. If you've ever been on a farm and seen a rooster walking around the hens, you'll know what we're talking about. he struts he owns the place he owns all the hens he lets everybody know

yes there's others other bible scholars who say this is a wrestler or maybe a soldier girded loins you know i could see that i could see that in there but yeah it's possible

because an ancient hebrew idiom for a man preparing for battle or action says that he's girded. His loins are girded. The last option, gird up thy loins. That's what a man did before running, walking or fighting. So last thing he does before he gets in a fight or he runs, he girds up his loins. And that means to gather up the long outer garment and took it into the belt so that his legs are free to run or wrestle, fight, whatever he's going to do.

For example, Elijah girded up his loins and ran to Aham. God told Job, gird up now by loins like a man. You can you ever think about it. The Lord the Lord told Joe, act like a man. Gird up your loins like a man. Okay.

I guess it was when Joe was whining and God had heard enough of it. Apostle Peter said, gird up the loins of your mind. Whatever creature Agar meant, the description tells us what he saw.

Something prepared, something unencumbered, something moving well because nothing is in its way. So, even though I lean towards the Septuagint in this, I concur with Adam Clark. His position was that the debate over the creature's identification misses the essential point. Amen. That the phrase girded of loins supplies the lesson regardless of which animal or person wore it. That's the important thing.

And like you, Rick, I do tend to lean toward the Septuagint because I believe they had access to information that we don't have access to today and the folks that wrote the Masoretic text that King James come from didn't have access to either. And so I lean in that direction.

But, you know, it's easy on these, on some of these words to get so caught up in it that you missed the point of the lesson. Whatever it is, like you said, Rick, it describes something that he saw and the way it was carrying itself. It's gait, its posture, it's, you know, it's bearing. But there is a second difficulty in verse 31. It needs to be addressed. And it's the closing phrase. It says a king against whom there is no rising up. And the Hebrew word there from King James is al-combe-mo.

Now, al-Kum is another word that appears nowhere else in Scripture. It's one of these one-off Hebrew words. And so we don't have another word in the Bible to compare it to. And so its meaning is genuinely uncertain. Now, the King James, driving from the Masoretic text, reads it as a compound. Two words, if you will, al, meaning not, plus com, meaning to rise, meaning no rise or no rising up against him. Now, others read it as a word that's all together. Okay, not two separate words, but we'll all one word together.

And they read it as his people with him or his army with him, which would describe a king leading an army, leading his troops. And the Septuagint, as we're going to look at, read something different entirely. Now, what we should say plainly for our Morning Man of Students is the same thing the series said at verse 28. The uncertainties in Scripture cluster in details, not in doctrines. Don't get tripped up on the details because it doesn't impact doctrine. And, you know, if anything else, it gives me even more confidence in the Word of God because no essential doctrines are ever challenged because of these one-off words. So two obscure words in a single verse of a numerical saying about

stately walking, don't threaten anything. They don't threaten salvation. They don't threaten the Trinity. They don't threaten the return of Christ. It doesn't impact any of that. No article of faith depends on identifying a girded animal. The broad sense of the verse is not in dispute, no matter how you read it.

What Agar is doing here is he's naming a creature of continent here. whatever the label is. And the subtergent says a he-goat leading his flock and a king whose position is secure. And that middle term, a he-goat, the Hebrew-Tavish, requires no translational note and can be easily overlooked here. Oh, Rick, I don't know if you're familiar with goats or not. I've had goats.

I've raised them a couple different times. And so as a kid, and then I had a few in the early 2000s. And so, but you have a he goat. What's a he goat? Well, a he goat walks at the head of the flock. He's the guy in charge. He's the goat that's in charge. It does not walk from behind.

He does not heard from behind. It goes first, and the flock follows. That's the idea there. And so this is a leadership image that we're talking about. And actually, in this case, Scripture uses it elsewhere. In Jeremiah 50 verse 8, it says, be as the he goats before the flocks. And Isaiah 149 uses the term for the chief ones of the earth. So it's implied leadership here.

So you understand why they might have translated it the way they did. Now, the goat is not the strongest animal in the field. I'm telling you that, and I know from personal experience, it's not the strongest animal in the field, but it leads because it goes first, which is a different qualification entirely. And it leads because it's the he-goat. It leads by its very nature, Rick,

as if something is written inside of it and says, just like the lion. I'm the guy in charge. I'm the one that leads things here. It's my purpose. It's my calling. It's who I am. So, Doc, yes.

I am acquainted with goats. My daughter, Carissa, she purchased three miniature goats and brought them to my house because she didn't have a place for goats. Take me goats? Yeah, could be goats. Yeah.

And I still remember them. Annabelle, Isabel, and Terabelle. They were funny. They were funny little goats, but men, could they do damage? And there was no fence high enough to keep those little pygmy goats inside the pin. So, yeah, I've been around goats and plus growing up. Verse 31B, second part, in a king, against, whom there is no rising up.

The saying closes with the king. And there's significance to the placement at the end. Hager has moved from animals to a man, and he saves the man for last. The first three are creatures whose bearing is, we'll say instinctive. The king's bearing is not. It must be developed and it can be lost.

A man must be trained, educated to be a king. A young woman must be trained and educated to be a queen. You're not just born with the attributes of a king or queen. Now, a lion is born as a lion. A lion doesn't have to go to lion school. A lion is a lion. But a king and a queen must go, they must be trained. They have to acquire these attributes.

I'll give you two examples. I mentioned King Abdullah and the second of Jordan. I had the honor of being invited to a dinner in Amma. I didn't get to personally meet him. He was seated about two or three tables away from me, but I observed him. And I said this before, Doc. King Abdullah walked into that dining room like a king.

He sat on his chair like a king. He held his fork like a king. And he exited the room like a king. He was well trained. Doc, you and I, I mean, I know I'm certain you, I have several times, a number of times. I've seen King will lead the sixth of Spain. Right.

Because I'm in Barcelona. Because he always attends a meeting that we attend. And also I'm at Davos, too. So yes, in Davos, Switzerland. So again, a tall, stately man, he walks like a king. But he had to be trained to be a king. And so Agri says, against whom there is no rising up. The sense of this is a ruler whose position is not under threat. There's nobody,

there are no rebels. There are no enemies. Nobody's trying to take down this king. Against whom there is no rising up. In other words, it's a peaceful kingdom. And so here the saying connects back to one that Agar gave us about 10 verses earlier. If you go back to Proverbs 30 versus 21 and 22, he named four things the earth cannot bear. And the first was a servant when he reigneth. A man with the position of king who does not have a formation. Doc, when you see somebody, when there's an overthrow in a nation,

and a king is toppled and the rebel comes to power, the rebel does not talk and walk and act like a king. That's right. They usually act like a thug because they're killers, they're revolutionaries. Verse 31 is the opposite of verse 21 and 22.

This king walks well because of position and the man actually match each other. See, in verse of 21, 22, four things that the earth can't bear. One of them, the first one. So, docking, of the four things that the earth can't bear, a servant when he reigneth was first. But now, in these four things,

that walk well, the king is mentioned last. There's a change in position here. Agar has given us both pictures. A throne that trembles because the man cannot carry it. He cannot sustain it because he doesn't have a formation to sit on that throne. And then compared against a man who walks well because he can. He's been trained. He's got the formation.

He's got the character formation. The difference is not the crown because both men are wearing it. The fourth item in this proverb is the answer to the first item and the preceding one. And that's why Agar has bracketed the same subject with its failure and its fulfillment. So, Doc, as we draw near the close of today's Bible lesson, what do all four have in common? Well, one thing comes from mind, Rick, because none of the four is described as doing anything to any.

You think about that? They're not actually, you know, doing anything to anybody or anything. It doesn't mention the lion attack, although I'm sure the lion's attacked, but the lion does not attack. It simply does not turn aside. The girded creature does not fight. It walks well. The he goat doesn't drive the flock. It just goes first, and the king is not described as conquering anything.

And so what Agar is talking about here is committing a bearing that requires no demonstration. And that distinction matters in normalcy, because it. It's not about arrogance and pride. A man who must prove he is formidable is not the man that Agar is describing here. The proving is itself the evidence that the thing is not settled. We previously examined the opposite back a few verses ago in verse 13 in this chapter. We talked about the generation with lofty eyes and eyelids lifted up, whose bearing was really a performance of an elevation they had assumed,

rather than they earn. And the difference really between verse 13 and verse 31 here is not the posture. It's whether the posture is true. And the Bible locates the believer's version of this varying in a specific place. Our bearing, our bearing, Rick, is borrowed. All right. Now, that sounds like it minimized it. Absolutely not, because who are we borrowing it from?

Well, let's read. Romans 831. If God before us, who can be against us? confidence is not an assessment of personal capacity. It is an assessment of who is on the field. Romans 837, nay, in all things, we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. And Hebrews 136,

so that we may boldly say, the Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man shall do unto me. The bearing that our teacher, Agar, commends, is available to him. each and every believer, Rick, and has nothing to do with circumstances, wealth, power, money,

none of those things. It's who you know. And if you remember back in verse 26, we talked about the cony, the rock badger, and the cony was safe because it lived in a rock. The believer walks like a lion for exactly the same reason. The security is in the location,

not in the animal. Proverbs 1810 states that the name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and is safe. The man who knows where he stands does not need to look over his shoulder. And our teacher Hager says that thing is worth watching. You know, earlier today, Rick, I was watching an old video of R.W. Shambach. And you know, a prince of preachers, really. And Brother Shambach, it was a phrase that stuck with me all afternoon.

I watched the video early this morning and just stuck with me all day. If you knew God sent you, what would stop you? If you knew God sent you, what would stop you? And I tell you what, that stirred up something in me, Rick, and I think it directly applies to our lesson today. If we know that we've been sent by God, what stops us? We're on a mission from God. What stops us? Not the circumstances, not the threat of an attack or anything like that.

Why? Because the Lord's on our side. He's our rock. He's our strong tower. He's our helper in times of trouble. What would you do if you knew that God sent you? It's been a challenge to me today. A good thought.

Look, you know, we're children. You know, when there are bullies on the playground, and you're the smallest run on the playground. And you've got to go out there and face the bullies again by yourself. We're in trouble. But if your papa goes with you, no, you're confident. You know my dad's standing right behind me. And the bullies run.

This is the way we have to see it as servants of Christ. If we go out there in the battlefield by ourselves, we're in trouble. But if we are marching, if we're walking in unison with our Savior, if he's right there with us, the enemy season, and you can be as bold as a lion. That's what we're teaching here. You can be as bold as a lion. The lion doesn't flinch or run.

The lion just says, hey, this is my territory. Let's take a look at the Greek Septuagint. There's substantial differences between the Septuagin and the King James. The Septuagin reads like this, and there are three things which go well, and a fourth which passeth along. Finally, a lion's wealth stronger than all other beasts, which turns not away, nor fears any beast, and a cock walking in boldly among the hens and the goat leading the herd and a king publicly speaking before a nation.

Very different reading, Doc. Yes. Let's look at the four differences between the King James and the Septuagia. Firstly, the lion becomes a lion's welt, a young lion, a cub. That's a very noticeable choice because a cub is not yet at full strength.

Yet the Greek Septuagint still says it turns not away nor fears any beast. Even a young come knows its lion. So the bearing, its confidence, the way it carries itself, precedes the full development of its physical power. Now, that is different from the King James. Because the Septuagin is saying, a young lion already walks like a lion. It's been watching his daddy. It's watching, hey, look at how dad walks.

That's the way I'm going to walk. Genesis 49, verse 9 uses the same phrase of Judah. Judah is a lion's well. Revelation applies the line of Judah to Jesus Christ. The second difference between Septuagint and the King James, The Septuagint adds a clause that the King James does not have. The lion nor fears any beast. That's not in the King James.

The King James says only that the lion does not turn away. The Septuagint supplies the internal state of the lion that underlies its external behavior. It does not turn aside because it is not afraid. The lion doesn't show any fear on the outside because there's no fear on the inside. The third difference between the Septuagint and King James is over this disputed character. The King James says it's a rooster. A rooster proudly walking among the hens with courage.

acting like he owns the in-house. So a rooster's strut is universally recognized. Anybody has ever seen a rooster knows how they walk. So I don't have to do an explanation. You know what we're talking about. Whether it is correct cannot be determined. Nobody's really sure if it's a rooster. But that's how the Greek translators read it.

All right. The fourth difference is the king is described differently in the Septuagint than in the King James. Where the King James has a king against whom there is no rising up. The Septuagint has a king publicly speaking before a nation. So in the Greek, in the Septuagint, there's a word that is Dame Garayo, which means to address a public assembly, to speak before the people. It's the word used for a formal public oration, right?

When the king's making an official state address to the nation. And so the Septuagin shifts the king's dignity from his security to his speech. So the King James pictures a ruler, nobody can overthrow. But the Septuagin pictures a ruler standing before his people and addressing them. Now, that's a genuinely different image, and it carries its own way. A man speaking publicly is exposed in a way a man on a secure throne is not.

He can be heckled, he could be contradicted, he can be judged in a moment, and a king who stands before a nation and speaks well as to, you know, really, in my opinion, fits the profile of everything else we've talked about in our study today, to display exactly the quality that we've been looking at throughout our lesson, bearing that does not require protection. And together, you know, just to be balanced here, the two traditions frame the king from both sides. The King James says that nobody can rise up against the king.

The Septuagint says the king, he stands up in front of everyone. And when he stands up and he begins to speak, you know he's the king. There's no question about it. This is the king. Both describe a man whose position is not in question. One, from the perspective of his enemies, the other from the perspective of his audience. And in my opinion, I lean more toward the Septuagint on this, Rick.

It just fits the other qualities that we mentioned, the other three qualities that we mentioned. That's just my take. Again, I'm going to say what I said, a day or two ago, I don't recall in previous teachings of proverbs, I don't recall ever going into detail about these proverbs. I have to wonder, my mind is so blank on a doc, I have to wonder, did we skip this chapter?

Because I don't have any memories in my mind about teaching these things. God had to teach us other things first to get us to where we are now. And if we teach it a year for now, Rick, we'll have new information and look at it a whole different way. I'm scared to go back and get recordings of what we taught on chapter 30. I don't know. I'm afraid to hear it. I don't even know what we said. I know it wasn't this.

This is a different level. It's just at a different level of understanding. But again, God had to get the teachers and the students ready for it. Amen. And that's a good sign. That says that we have matured. All of us have matured over the past several years. Okay, so let's wrap it up.

Thank you for being here. We'll be back tomorrow. Let's see. Tomorrow is the last day of the last lesson. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to suspend Faith Friday for tomorrow. We'll still have communion. But I want to stay with Proverbs 30 because we only have the final two verses. And I don't want to carry that over into Monday.

That doesn't bother me all weekend. I have to be thinking, oh, two verses hanging over from chapter 30. Okay. I'd like to get it done now and finish it up on Friday. Then on Monday we will begin chapter 31. And we're driving at home the final. chapter of our study of Proverbs. We'll be back tomorrow.

Communion, as always, but it won't be Faith Friday. It will be the final verses of chapter 30. God bless. See you tomorrow. God bless you. Thank you for watching Morning Manor. We hope your soul has been nourished today. We welcome and appreciate your prayers and financial support for our international Bible teaching

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