Proverbs 3

Proverbs 3:2

Length of dayes] If a short life be not a blessing, as 1 Kings XIV. 13. Esay LVII. 1. when there is a fire in an house or a town, men carry out their jewels. But then God makes them up in his Cabinet, Malachi III. 17.

Proverbs 3:7

Be not wise] Bis desipit qui sibi sapit. ch. XXVI. 12.

Proverbs 3:11

the chastening] Is cited, Heb. XII. 5, 6. Schola crucis, schola lucis. Adversity is the best University.

Proverbs 3:18

she is a tree of life] Alluding to Gen. II. 9. See XIII. 12. and XV. 4.

and happie is] The retainers of her. So in the Hebrew. And the meaning is well rendered in our English, every one that retaineth her. The like phrase and use of the plural, joyned with a singular, and in a distributive sense, in the Hebrew, is found, chap. XIV. 1. Gen. XLIX. 22. Exod. XVII. 12. and XXXI. 14. Iosh. II. 4. Job XII. 7. Psal. LXXIII. 7. Joel I. 20. 2 Kings V. 13.

Proverbs 3:19

The Lord by wisdome] By his essential wisdome, by the Lord Christ, chap. VIII. 30. Apoc. III. 14. Heb. I. 2. Col. I. 16.

Proverbs 3:28

go, and come again] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

Proverbs 3:34

surely he scorneth the scorners but he giveth grace to the lowly] Jam. IV. 6. 1 Pet. V. 5. Those scorners are such through pride. And the grace here given is not meant of inward sanctifying grace, but of external favour, repute, and estimation with men. And so chap. I. 9. and IV. 9. Eccles. VII. 1. and chap. IX. 11. Luke II. 52. Acts II. 47. And so also may be understood, Luke I. 28. and Ephes. 1. 6.

scorneth] Psal, I. 1. chap. I. 22. and IX. 7, 8. See the Observations there. As also chap. IX. 12. and XIII. 1. Esay XXVIII. 14. and chap. XXIX. 20. Hos. VII. 5. 2 Pet. III. 3. Iude 18.