
Text -- Proverbs 2:9 (NET)




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When God in answer to thy desires hath given thee wisdom.

All the parts of thy duty to man, as well as the fear of God.
Emphatic, in such a case.
Clarke -> Pro 2:9
Clarke: Pro 2:9 - -- Then shalt thou understand - He who is taught of God understands the whole law of justice, mercy, righteousness, and truth; God has written this on ...
Then shalt thou understand - He who is taught of God understands the whole law of justice, mercy, righteousness, and truth; God has written this on his heart. He who understands these things by books only is never likely to practice or profit by them.
TSK -> Pro 2:9
TSK: Pro 2:9 - -- Pro 1:2-6; Psa 25:8, Psa 25:9, Psa 32:8, Psa 119:99, Psa 119:105, Psa 143:8-10; Isa 35:8, Isa 48:17; Jer 6:16; Mat 7:13, Mat 7:14; Joh 14:6

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Poole -> Pro 2:9
Poole: Pro 2:9 - -- Then ; when thou hast done thy part, expressed Pro 2:1-3 , &c., and God in answer to thy desires hath given thee wisdom, Pro 2:6 ; or when it is wi...
Then ; when thou hast done thy part, expressed Pro 2:1-3 , &c., and God in answer to thy desires hath given thee wisdom, Pro 2:6 ; or when it is with thee, as it follows, Pro 2:10 . Righteousness, and judgment, and equity ; all the parts of thy duty to man, as well as the fear of God, Pro 2:5 , which contains all duties to God. These three words are used here, as also Pro 1:3 , to signify the same thing. Every good path ; the practice of all virtues and graces.
Gill -> Pro 2:9
Gill: Pro 2:9 - -- Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment,.... This is another fruit and effect of the Gospel, and of a spiritual understanding of it; tha...
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment,.... This is another fruit and effect of the Gospel, and of a spiritual understanding of it; that besides the knowledge of God, and how to behave with reverence towards him, Pro 2:5; it leads men into a notion of doing that which is right and just among men; it gives them not only a theoretic but a practical understanding of justice, and a true judgment of what is right and wrong; or gives such an understanding thereof as that they practise it; for it teaches men to live soberly, righteously, and godly, Tit 2:11. It is not only a revelation and ministration of the righteousness of Christ as the only matter of a sinner's justification before God; and informs a man's judgment so that he can distinguish between truth and error, right and wrong, good and bad notions and practices; but it influences his actions, life, and conversation, and engages him to do works of righteousness from the best principles, upon the best motives, and with the best views;
and equity; yea, every good path; that is, so to understand equity, as to do that which is equitable between man and man; and to understand every good path which the word of God directs to, even all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, so as to walk in them; these things the Gospel acquaints men with, and urges them to observe: or the words may be rendered, either "the rectitude" or "equity of fall good paths", as the Syriac version; how just, and right, and plain, and equitable, everyone is, and therefore ought to be walked in; or "plainnesses", or "most plain", is or shall be "every good path" r, to them that have a spiritual and experimental knowledge of the Gospel; and by it an understanding of their duty. One word signifies "plain" and "straight", and another "round" s, and both are true of the path of righteousness; for though it is a circle of duty saints walk in, yet straight and plain.

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TSK Synopsis -> Pro 2:1-22
TSK Synopsis: Pro 2:1-22 - --1 Wisdom promises godliness to her children;10 and safety from evil company;20 and direction in good ways.
MHCC -> Pro 2:1-9
MHCC: Pro 2:1-9 - --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 nece...
Matthew Henry -> Pro 2:1-9
Matthew Henry: Pro 2:1-9 - -- Job had asked, long before this, Where shall wisdom be found? Whence cometh wisdom? (Job 28:12, Job 28:20) and he had given this general answer (v...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 2:9-11
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 2:9-11 - --
With the אז repeated, the promises encouraging to the endeavour after wisdom take a new departure:
9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, a...
Constable: Pro 1:1--9:18 - --I. DISCOURSES ON WISDOM chs. 1--9
Verse one introduces both the book as a whole and chapters 1-9 in particular. ...

Constable: Pro 1:8--8:1 - --B. Instruction for Young People 1:8-7:27
The two ways (paths) introduced in 1:7 stretch out before the r...
