Proverbs Book #2C (Commentary only)

Proverbs Book #2C (Commentary only)


Matthew Henry Concise Commentary - Chapter 2
Promises to those who seek wisdom (1-9).
The advantages of wisdom (10-22).


Verses 1-9 Those who earnestly seek heavenly wisdom, will
never complain that they have lost their labour; and the
freeness of the gift does not do away the necessity of our
diligence, John 6:27. Let them seek, and they shall find it;
let them ask, and it shall be given them.

Observe who are thus favoured. They are the righteous,
on whom the image of God is renewed, which consists in
righteousness. If we depend upon God, and seek to him for
wisdom, he will enable us to keep the paths of judgment.

Verses 10-22 If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid
all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion
over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the
heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and
temptations without.

The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and
unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant,
lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in such ways! They
take pleasure in sin; both in committing it, and in seeing
others commit it.

Every wise man will shun such company. True wisdom will also
preserve from those who lead to fleshly lusts, which defile
the body, that living temple, and war against the soul. These
are evils which excite the sorrow of every serious mind, and
cause every reflecting parent to look upon his children with
anxiety, lest they should be entangled in such fatal snares.

Let the sufferings of others be our warnings. Our Lord Jesus
deters from sinful pleasures, by the everlasting torments which
follow them. It is very rare that any who are caught in this
snare of the devil, recover themselves; so much is the heart
hardened, and the mind blinded, by the deceitfulness of this sin.

Many think that this caution, besides the literal sense, is to
be understood as a caution against idolatry, and subjecting the
soul to the body, by seeking any forbidden object. The righteous
must leave the earth as well as the wicked; but the earth is a
very different thing to them.

To the wicked it is all the heaven they ever shall have; to the
righteous it is the place of preparation for heaven. And is it
all one to us, whether we share with the wicked in the miseries
of their latter end, or share those everlasting joys that shall
crown believers?

God Bless you -
Chip Tarver
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