John Wesley · 1559 of 2131
Commentary on Chapter II
1. Hide - Lay them up in thy heart with care, as men do their choicest treasures.
3. Criest - To God, the only giver of it.
4. Seek her - With unwearied diligence and earnest desire and patient expectation.
8. Path of judgment - Righteous paths, judgment being here put for . And keeping of paths may be put for keeping them in their paths.
9. 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.
10. When - Thou dost truly love wisdom.
13. Darkness - Of sin.
15. Crooked - Who swerve from the straight way of God's law, and have windings and turnings, to escape .
16. Strange woman - From the adulteress or whore.
17. Forsaketh - Her husband whom she took to be her guide and governor, in her youth. The - The marriage : 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 .
18. For - with her (which was most usual in her own house) is the certain way to death, which it brings many ways, and undoubtedly, without , to God's wrath and the second death.
20. That - This depends upon ver. 11, and is mentioned as another happy fruit of wisdom.