{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/pro002.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/pro002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/pro002.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nDiligence in hearing and praying for instruction must be used to secure the great principle of godliness, the fear of God.\nhide . . . with thee--lay up in store (compare Pro 7:1).\nListen attentively and reflect seriously (Pro 1:24; Psa 130:2).\nunderstanding--right perception of truth.\nYea, if--literally, \"When if,\" that is, in such a case.\nknowledge--or, \"discrimination.\"\nunderstanding--as in Pro 2:2.\nThere must be earnest prayer and effort.\nunderstand--or, \"perceive intelligently.\"\nfind--obtain.\nFor--God is ready (Jam 1:5; Jam 4:8).\nout of his mouth--by revelation from Him.\nsound wisdom--literally, \"substance,\" opposed to what is fictitious. According to the context, this may be assistance, as here corresponding with\nbuckler--or safety, or wisdom, which procures it (compare Pro 3:21; Pro 8:14; Pro 18:1; Job 6:13; Job 12:13).\nlayeth up--provides, ever ready.\nkeepeth . . . way--God defends the right way, and those in it.\nsaints--objects of favor (compare Psa 4:3, &c.). He guides and guards them.\nThen--emphatic, in such a case.\nrighteousness . . . path--all parts of duty to God and man.\nIdea of Pro 2:9, amplified; on terms, compare Pro 2:2 and Pro 2:4.\nTo deliver--as from great danger (Pro 6:5).\nway . . . man-- (Psa 1:1).\nfroward things--perversity (Pro 6:14; Pro 23:23), what is opposed to truth.\npaths of uprightness--or, \"plainness.\"\nwalk--habitually act;\nand that with pleasure, in ignorance of good and pursuit of evil.\nfrowardness--Not only their own perversity, but that of others is their delight. They love most the worst things.\ncrooked--tortuous, unprincipled.\nfroward--literally, (they) are going back, not only aside from right, but opposite to it.\nDeliverance from another danger.\nthe strange woman--This term is often used for harlot, or loose woman (Jdg 11:1-2), married (Pro 7:5, Pro 7:19) or not (Kg1 11:1), so called, because such were, perhaps at first, foreigners, though \"strange\" may also denote whatever is opposed to right or proper, as \"strange fire\" (Num 3:4); \"strange incense\" (Exo 30:9).\nflattereth--literally, \"smooths.\"\nher words-- (Psa 5:9).\nguide . . . youth--lawful husband (Jer 3:4).\ncovenant . . . God--of marriage made in God's name.\ninclineth--sinks down (compare Num 13:31).\nthe dead--or shades of the departed (Psa 88:10).\nthat is, such as remain impenitent (compare Ecc 7:26).\npaths of life-- (Psa 16:11), opposed to paths unto the dead.\nThat . . . way of good--that is, Such is the object of these warnings.\n(Compare Psa 37:3, Psa 37:9, Psa 37:22, Psa 37:27).\ntransgressors--or impious rebels (compare Jer 9:2).\nrooted out--utterly destroyed, as trees plucked up by the roots.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 2","type":"page"}