Then I saw, [and] considered [it] well: I looked upon [it, and] received instruction.
Ver. 32. Then I saw and considered it well.] I made my best use of it for mine own instruction. A bee can suck honey out of a flower, which a fly cannot do; so a spiritual mind can extract good out of every object and occurrence, even out of other men's faults and follies. He can gather grapes of thorns, and figs of thistles, as here. Well, therefore, may grace be called "the divine nature"; 2Pe 1:4 for as God draws light out of darkness, good out of evil, &c., so doth grace, by a heavenly kind of alchemy, as I may so say.
And received instruction.] Exemplo alterius qui sapit, ille sapit. The worse others are, the better should we be, getting as far off from the wicked as we can in our daily practice, and "saving ourselves from this untoward generation."