Teks -- Proverbs 2:1 (NET)

Benefits of Seeking Wisdom

2:1 My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,

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Wesley: Pro 2:1 - Hide

Lay them up in thy heart with care, as men do their choicest treasures.

JFB: Pro 2:1-5

Men are invited to seek wisdom because it teaches those principles by which they may obtain God's guidance and avoid the society and influence of the wicked, whose pernicious courses are described. (Pro. 2:1-22)

Diligence in hearing and praying for instruction must be used to secure the great principle of godliness, the fear of God.

JFB: Pro 2:1-5 - hide . . . with thee

Lay up in store (compare Pro 7:1).

Clarke: Pro 2:1 - My son

My son - Here the tutor still continues to instruct his disciple

Hide my commandments with theel Treasure them up in thy heart, and then act from them through the medium of thy affections. He who has the rule of his duty only in his Bible and in his head, is not likely to be a steady, consistent character; his heart is not engaged, and his obedience, in any case, can be only forced, or done from a sense of duty: it is not the obedience of a loving, dutiful child, to an affectionate father. But he who has the word of God in his heart, works from his heart; his heart goes with him in all things, and he delights to do the will of his heavenly Father, because his law is in his heart. See Pro 3:3.

TSK: Pro 2:1 - if // hide

if : Pro 1:3, Pro 4:1, Pro 7:1; Joh 12:47, Joh 12:48; 1Ti 1:15

hide : Pro 3:1, Pro 4:20-22, Pro 6:21; Deu 6:6-9; Job 23:12; Psa 119:9-11; Mat 13:44; Luk 2:19, Luk 2:51, Luk 9:44

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Haydock: Pro 2:1 - If

If. This proves free will. To become truly wise, we must desire it with the same avidity as a miser seeks for riches. (Worthington) ---

We must also pray, (ver. 3.) with humility (ver. 2.) to God, the giver of wisdom, ver. 6. Every science which has not Him for the beginning and end, is vain and dangerous. (Calmet)

Gill: Pro 2:1 - My son // if thou wilt receive my words // and hide my commandments with thee

My son,.... These are either the continuation of the words of Solomon to his son Rehoboam; or to anyone that came to him for instruction, or was within the reach of being taught by him; whom he addresses in this tender and affectionate manner, in order to gain his attention to what he was about to say: or else they are the words of Wisdom, or Christ, continued, thus bespeaking: his children and people; and giving them some very wholesome counsel and advice, backed with the most powerful and prevailing arguments;

if thou wilt receive my words; or doctrines: the doctrines of the Gospel, relating to the person, office, and grace of Christ, and salvation by him; such as the words of peace, pardon, righteousness, and life; which are to be received, not as the word of man, but as the word of God; and with all readiness of mind and willingness, as they were by the Bereans; and most gladly, as by the three thousand pricked to the heart under Peter's sermon; and as they are and will be by every sensible sinner;

and hide my commandments with thee; in the heart; so as to have a high esteem of them, and a hearty affection and value for them; retain them in memory, and frequently think of them and meditate upon them, and constantly observe them; see Psa 119:11.