Proverbs 2:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

He layeth up. Same word as "hide" in Proverbs 2:1. The wicked cannot find. The righteous must dig. It is in safety from the enemy.

sound wisdom. something stable. Hebrew. tushiyah = that which is, or stability. May be so rendered in all its twelve occurrences. Compare Job 5:12 (enterprise. anything stable); Proverbs 6:13 (wisdom. stability); Proverbs 11:6; Proverbs 12:16 (wisdom. stability); Proverbs 26:3; Proverbs 30:22 (substance). Proverbs 2:7; Proverbs 3:21; Proverbs 8:14 (sound wisdom); Proverbs 18:1 (wisdom. all that is). Isaiah 28:29 (workings everything that is). Micah 6:9 (the man of wisdom. every one who is or exists). See App-74.

buckler. Compare Psalms 3:3; Psalms 7:10; Psalms 18:2; Psalms 18:30; Psalms 18:35; Psalms 28:7; Psalms 33:20. Applied to God, as here.

uprightly. blamelessly.

Proverbs 2:7

7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.