Proverbs 1:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Early; or, in the morning, as the word properly signifies, and is here rendered by others, as soon as their calamity comes; or rather, with great diligence and fervency, as this phrase commonly signifies. They shall not find me, because they do not seek me by choice and with sincerity, but only by constraint, and that they may be freed from their miseries.