Verse 35. 1. _Natural life_ is found by it, not in regard to the beginning of it, but in regard of the comfort and continuance. 2. _Spiritual life,_ or the life of grace. Wisdom is the life of the soul, and what were the world worth if there were no light? 3. _Eternal life,_ or the life of glory. This is indeed the life that Christ, the wisdom of God, died to purchase for us, and lived among us to show us the way to it.--_Francis Taylor._ Verse 36. Doing without is a stupid misery; but hating wisdom is an insane marvel.--_Miller._ Not to love and earnestly seek Wisdom is to _sin against her._ To disregard her is to _hate_ her, and is virtually, though unconsciously, to love death; for it is loving things, which as being opposed to wisdom, bring with them death.--_Fausset._ What meaneth this _all_ where one would think there could be none? Can there be an all to hate Him who loveth all that is? But if it were not so, why do so many resist His holy will, despise His heavenly laws, rebel against His sacred pleasure? Are not these effects of hatred? Besides, so doth He challenge the _all_ of our affection, as not to hate all things for His sake, is to hate Him. Now they that hate Him, which can they love? Surely it must needs be _death,_ because in all things else He is. But that is the fruit of sin, and they that love the tree must needs love the fruit also. But to whom do we speak these things, or why do we speak them? Where shall we find open ears, or seeing eyes, when now almost men care not whom they look after, so that they do not look after themselves?--_Jermin._ A child or an idiot may kindle a fire which all the city cannot quench. In spite of their utmost efforts, it might destroy both the homes of the poor and the palaces of majesty. So a sinner, though he cannot do the least good, can do the greatest evil. The Almighty only can save him, but he can destroy himself.--_Arnot._