Proverbs 2 - Introduction
1:2 instruction; (i-5) 'Wisdom' here and in ver. 7 is _ chokmah_ . 'Instruction' means also, 'correction,' 'warning,' 'discipline,' Job 36:10 .... [ Continue Reading ]
1:2 instruction; (i-5) 'Wisdom' here and in ver. 7 is _ chokmah_ . 'Instruction' means also, 'correction,' 'warning,' 'discipline,' Job 36:10 .... [ Continue Reading ]
2:7 wisdom (f-5) Or 'true wisdom,' or 'soundness;' and so chs. 3.21; 8.14. see Job 6:13 ; Job 12:16 .... [ Continue Reading ]
2:8 ones. (g-14) Or 'saints;' _ chasid_ , see Psalms 30:4 .... [ Continue Reading ]
2:9 judgment (h-7) 'Just judgment' or 'justice.' path. (i-12) The word is difficult to render. It is properly 'a path going round,' and hence used for the 'entrenchment' of a war camp, as 'wagon-defence' in 1 Samuel 17:20 . It is applied, as in Psalms 17:5 ; Psalms 23:3 , to God's path for the saint... [ Continue Reading ]
2:12 things; (a-15) Or 'deceits,' plural, as often. see Psalms 5:9 ; Psalms 11:7 .... [ Continue Reading ]
2:13 uprightness, (b-8) From _ jashar_ . see ch. 3.32.... [ Continue Reading ]
2:14 frowardness (a-10) Or 'deceits,' plural, as often. see Psalms 5:9 ; Psalms 11:7 .... [ Continue Reading ]
2:15 perverted (c-8) See Note, ch. 3.32. course. (d-11) See Note i, ver. 9.... [ Continue Reading ]
2:17 guide (e-4) Or 'familiar friend.'... [ Continue Reading ]
2:18 paths (d-10) See Note i, ver. 9. dead; (f-13) Or 'shades,' as Job 26:5 , see Psalms 88:10 .... [ Continue Reading ]
2:21 land, (g-8) Or 'earth.'... [ Continue Reading ]
2:22 land, (g-10) Or 'earth.' unfaithful (h-13) More exactly, 'faithless,' 'perfidious,' 'treacherous,' but used as towards God. see Psalms 78:57 ; Jeremiah 3:20 .... [ Continue Reading ]