Prov 30 was written by a man named Agur.  Agur professed to be a brutish man, v.2.  Brutish here means he was untaught.  However, he was observant.  The things he wrote in this proverb he learned, not by education but, by observation.  And in all of his observation, he understood...

In Prov 30:24-28, there are four little things that are exceeding wise.  The spider is one of them.  She “taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces,” [Prov 30:28].  We must be like the spider.  We must hold onto good things, like Paul wrote in 1 Thes 5:21,...