Proverbs 30:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The words of Agur Who this Agur was no one has ever yet been able to show: it is probable, however, that both he and Jakeh, his father, were well known in Israel at the time this chapter and the next were added to the preceding parts of the proverbs. Jakeh is thought to have lived either in Solomon's time or soon after, and to have been famous in his generation for wisdom and piety; even the prophecy The prophetical instruction; for as prophets were public preachers as well as foretellers of things to come, so their sermons, no less than their predictions, are commonly called their prophecies. Ithiel and Ucal Two friends and cotemporaries of Agur, who desired his instructions.