Proverbs 24

Proverbs 24:1

Knowledge - The practical knowledge of God and of their duty.

Proverbs 24:3

Eat - They should receive punishment answerable to their sins. Filled - With the fruits of them.

Proverbs 24:4

Turning - From God. Destroy - Shall prove the occasion of their ruin, by making them presumptuous, and secure.

Proverbs 24:7

Hide - Lay them up in thy heart with care, as men do their choicest treasures.

Proverbs 24:9

Criest - To God, the only giver of it.

Proverbs 24:10

Seek her - With unwearied diligence and earnest desire and patient expectation.

Proverbs 24:14

Path of judgment - Righteous paths, judgment being here put for righteousness. And keeping of paths may be put for keeping them in their paths.

Proverbs 24:15

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.

Proverbs 24:16

When - Thou dost truly love wisdom.

Proverbs 24:19

Darkness - Of sin.

Proverbs 24:21

Crooked - Who swerve from the straight way of God’s law, and have windings and turnings, to escape conviction.

Proverbs 24:22

Strange woman - From the adulteress or whore.

Proverbs 24:23

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.

Proverbs 24:24

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.

Proverbs 24:26

That - This depends upon ver.11, and is mentioned as another happy fruit of wisdom.

Proverbs 24:30

My law - The law of God, which might be called his law, as the gospel is called Paul’s gospel, 2 Timothy 2:8, because delivered by him.

Proverbs 24:32

Mercy - Mercy denotes all benignity, charity, and readiness to do good to others: truth or faithfulness respects all those duties which we owe to God or man, which we have special obligation from the rules of justice. Bind them - Like a chain, wherewith persons adorn their necks. Table - In thy mind and heart, in which all God’s commands are to be received and engraven.

Proverbs 24:33

Understanding - Whereby to know thy duty, and to discern between good and evil. Of God - Grace or favour with God, and that understanding which is good in God’s sight.

Proverbs 24:34

Trust - Wholly rely upon God’s promises and providences. Lean not - Under this one kind of carnal confidence, he understands all other confidence in bodily strength, wealth, or friends.