Note the illustrations.
(1) Contact with Phoenician commerce, and joint expeditions in ships of Tarshish (see Psalms 72:10 note), had made the Israelites familiar with the risks and the enterprise of the miller’s life. Compare Job 28:
(2) The treasure hidden in a field, is the second point of comparison. Such treasure-seeking has always been characteristic of the East. Compare Matthew 13:44.
Verse Proverbs 2:4. _IF THOU SEEKEST HER AS SILVER_] How do men seek money? What will they not do to get rich? Reader, seek the salvation of thy soul as earnestly as the covetous man seeks wealth; and...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The pursuit of wisdom and its results (Proverbs 2:1)_ 2. Preservation from the evil man and the strange woman (Proverbs 2:10) 3. The path of the righteous (Proverbs 2:20)...
THIRD DISCOURSE. The wise man praises Wisdom, describing the blessings of obedience to her. The deeper religious element in wisdom appears, the fundamental conception of Hebrew prophecy, that the know...
AS SILVER: or money. Probably the reference is to Job 28....
_as silver … hid treasures_ It has been supposed that there is reference here to the eagerness and effort connected with the discovery and working of a silver mine, and to the search for treasure hidd...
DISCOURSE: 754 THE WAY OF ATTAINING DIVINE KNOWLEDGE Proverbs 2:1. My Son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thin...
IF THOU SEEKEST HER AS SILVER— This is thought to be a proverbial saying, borrowed from those who work in mines: The former part of the verse expressing eager desire and great diligence, and the latte...
CHAPTER 2 TEXT Proverbs 2:1-9 1. My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee; 2. So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding; 3....
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; IF THOU SEEKEST HER AS SILVER, AND SEARCHEST FOR HER AS (FOR) HID TREASURES - not content with merely one look, or an ordi...
THE SEARCH FOR WISDOM 1-4. The condition which must be fulfilled. Spinoza said, 'The effort to understand is the first and sole basis of virtue.'...
Wealth was hoarded in the shape of gold and jewels. In times of peril this was buried (Genesis 43:23; Job 3:21; Jeremiah 41:8; Matthew 13:44). Hence the suspi
THE SEARCH FOR WISDOM We must greatly desire wisdom. We must listen to it. We must desire it. We must ask questions, so that we can learn more. We must hunt for wisdom, like someone who searches for...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 2 V1 My son, accept my words! Hide my commands inside yourself! v2
IF THOU SEEKEST HER AS SILVER. — That the process of mining was understood long before the time of Solomon, is proved by the remains of copper mines discovered in the peninsula of Sinai, and the gold...
אִם ־תְּבַקְשֶׁ֥נָּה כַ † כָּ֑סֶף וְֽ כַ...
CHAPTER 3 WISDOM AS THE GUIDE OF CONDUCT "To deliver thee from the way of the evil man…To deliver thee from the strange woman."- Proverbs 2:12 WISDOM is concerned, as we have seen, with the whole u...
WISDOM GUARDS FROM EVIL Proverbs 2:1-22 Several words are reiterated in this chapter, which will unlock its treasures. _Understanding,_ Proverbs 2:2-3; Proverbs 2:5; Proverbs 2:9; Proverbs 2:11. If...
From here and through chapter 8 we have a series of parental counsels. These all begin with the address, "My son," and deal with the value of wisdom, and make many practical applications. The first o...
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid (d) treasures; (d) Showing that no labour must be spared....
_WISDOM’S COUNSELS_ ‘My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; … then shalt thou u...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
IF THOU SEEKEST HER AS SILVER,.... That is, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding; which all signify and relate unto one and the same thing, expressed here by "her": namely, the doctrine of wisdom, or...
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures; Ver. 4. _If thou seekest her as silver._] _Opulentissima metalla quorum in alta latent venae,_ saith Seneca, _a_ Your rich...
_My son_, &c. These words are spoken by Solomon, either, 1st, In the name of wisdom, as before: or rather, 2d, In his own name. _If thou wilt hide my commandments with thee_ Wilt lay them up in thy mi...
If thou seekest her as silver, with the same eagerness, AND SEARCHEST FOR HER AS FOR HID TREASURES, with the avidity which avarice induces in a person digging for gold or jewels,...
ADVANTAGES IN ACCEPTING WISDOM...
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 s...
With the same unwearied diligence, and earnest desire, and patient expectation under all delays, disappointments, and difficulties, which worldlings use in the purchase of riches, or in digging in min...
Proverbs 2:4 seek H1245 (H8762) silver H3701 search H2664 (H8799) treasures H4301 thou -...
SOLOMON CALLS ON HIS ‘SON' TO RECEIVE HIS WORDS WITH A VIEW TO ATTAINING A TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD WHICH WILL CAUSE HIM TO REVERENCE HIM (PROVERBS 2:1). The first voice that speaks to the young man is t...
Proverbs 2:1 This is only one passage out of many in which wisdom is connected with religion, in which it is asserted that a religious fear of God is the first step in true wisdom, and that he who wo...
Proverbs 2:2 I. Solomon's meaning is, that we are to begin life by fearing God, without understanding it; as a child obeys his parents without understanding the meaning of their commands. If we do not...
CONTENTS: How wisdom is to be obtained and used. The unspeakable advantage of true wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: God has provided that those who are sincerely disposed to do...
Proverbs 2:1. _Hide my commandments with thee,_ as a treasure is secured in the cabinet, or as the copy of the law was put within the ark in the holy place. The words of the law must be retained in th...
_Seekest her as silver._ SEARCH FOR HID TREASURES Even in Job, the oldest book in the world, we read that the bitter in soul dig for death more earnestly than for hid treasures (Job 3:21). There is n...
_So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom._ WISDOM This is constantly connected with religion. A religious fear of God is the first step in true wisdom. He who would know God aright must love Wisdo...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 2:1 These verses call the listener or reader to SEEK wisdom diligently. ⇐...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 2:1_ HUMAN UNDERSTANDING AND DIVINE KNOWLEDGE I. DIVINE KNOWLEDGE IS WITHIN THE REACH OF THE HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. When a physician has created an appetite...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 2:1 3. _Third admonitory discourse, pointing out the benefits which arise from a sincere, earnest, and persevering search after Wisdom. _This discourse divides itself into three...
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with you; So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up...
Ecclesiastes 4:8; Job 28:12; Luke 16:8; Matthew 13:44; Matthew 19:21
Seek her — With unwearied diligence and earnest desire and patient expectation....