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Proverbs 2:1 open_in_new
Hide — Lay them up in thy heart with care, as men do their choicest treasures.
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Proverbs 2:3 open_in_new
Criest — To God, the only giver of it.
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Proverbs 2:4 open_in_new
Seek her — With unwearied diligence and earnest desire and patient expectation.
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Proverbs 2:8 open_in_new
Path of judgment — Righteous paths, judgment being here put for righteousness. And keeping of paths may be put for keeping them in their paths.
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Proverbs 2:9 open_in_new
Then — When God in answer to thy desires hath given thee wisdom. Equity — All the parts of thy duty to man, as well as the fear of God.
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Proverbs 2:10 open_in_new
When — Thou dost truly love wisdom.
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Proverbs 2:13 open_in_new
Darkness — Of sin.
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Proverbs 2:15 open_in_new
Crooked — Who swerve from the straight way of God's law, and have windings and turnings, to escape conviction.
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Proverbs 2:16 open_in_new
Strange woman — From the adulteress or whore.
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Proverbs 2:17 open_in_new
Forsaketh — Her husband whom she took to be her guide and governor, in her youth. The covenant — The marriage covenant: so called because God is the author of that mutual obligation: and because God is called to be the witness and judge of that solemn promise and covenant.
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Proverbs 2:18 open_in_new
For — Conversation with her (which was most usual in her own house) is the certain way to death, which it brings many ways, and undoubtedly, without repentance, to God's wrath and the second death.
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Proverbs 2:20 open_in_new
That — This depends upon Proverbs 2:11, and is mentioned as another happy fruit of wisdom.