Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 27:26
The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.
Verse 26. The lambs are for thy clothing] So many fleeces are given in some places as rent to the landlord.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The lambs are for thy clothing; by their wool and skins, either used to clothe thyself with or sold to purchase all manner of clothing for thyself and family.
The goats are the price of the field; by the sale whereof thou mayst either pay the rent of the field which thou hirest, or purchase fields or lands for thyself. Either goats are put for all cattle, or he mentions goats, because these might better be spared and sold than sheep, which brought a more certain and constant profit to the owner.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
The lambs [are] for thy clothing,…. This is another argument, exciting to diligence in the pastoral calling, taken from the profit arising from it: the wool of the lambs, or rather “sheep”, as many versions render it; of it cloth is made, and of that garments to be worn, to keep decent, warm, and comfortable; see Job 31:20;
and the goats [are] the price of thy field: these, being brought up and sold, furnish the husbandman with money to purchase more fields to feed his cattle on. The Targum is,
“the goats are for negotiation;”
with the price of them a man may purchase any of the necessaries of life for himself and family; these are negotiated, Eze 27:21; the Syriac version is, “the goats are for thy food”; and so, between both the sheep and goats, man has both food and raiment; though his food is particularly mentioned in Pr 27:27.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(26) And the goats are the price of the fieldi.e., you can purchase a field from the profit of your goats.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
26. Goats , ( ‘ hattudhim,) literally, bucks, either of sheep or goats, but here, perhaps, as in Authorized Version, used for goats in general, or for the full grown of sheep and goats. The goats are generally black or parti-coloured. They live night and day, summer and winter, under the open sky. They compensate their owners with milk, which is more highly esteemed than any other, although the milk of the cow is used a part of the year. Their flesh, also, is highly valued. Of their hair, among the Arabs especially, cloth is made to cover the tents. Out of their skins, bottles are manufactured, by stripping the hide from the body without slitting it open. These bottles are used to hold water, milk, wine, and other liquids. They are the kind of bottles spoken of in the Scriptures, as in Mat 9:17. Goats are consequently greatly valued in the East. In them consisted a considerable part of the wealth of the people. (JAHN’S Bib. Antiq., sec. 46.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Pro 27:26 The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.
Ver. 26. The lambs are for thy clothing. ] Ad esum et ad usum, for food and raiment a profitable creature. Some creatures are profitable alive, not dead, as the dog, horse, &c.; some dead, not alive, as the hog; some both, as the ox; yet none so profitable as the sheep.
And the goats are the price of thy field.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
goats = he goats.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Job 31:20
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
27:26 The {k} lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.
(k) This declares the great goodness of God towards man, and the diligence that he requires from him for the preservation of his gifts.