1. Temporally. 2. Mentally. 3. Spiritually. 4. Externally. (Isa. xxvi. 3, xxxiii. 15, 16; Jer. xxiii. 6; Deut. xxxiii. 12, 28.)--_Fausset._ His ark is pitched within and without; tossed, it may be, but not drowned: shaken, but not shivered.--_Trapp._ Eternal life, secure in the world to come, casts a bright beam of hope across, sufficient to quiet the anxieties of a faint and fluttering heart in all the dangers of the journey through.--_Arnot._ There is now _dwelling_ but in heaven; hell is a _prison_; earth is a _pilgrimage_. In Heaven there be many mansions, wherein every room is the lodging of quietness, the walls whereof are safety, the gates security, and all fear of evil shut out for ever.--_Jermin._ * * * * * * CHAPTER II. CRITICAL NOTES.--+2. Incline.+ To _sharpen_ or prick the ear, like an animal. +5. God.+ _Elohim._ One of five instances in the book in which God is thus designated, the appellation Jehovah occurring nearly ninety times. In explaining the all but universal use of _Jehovah_ as the name of God in the Proverbs, while it never occurs in Ecclesiastes, Wordsworth says: "When Solomon wrote the book of Proverbs he was in a state of favour and grace with Jehovah, the Lord God of Israel; he was obedient to the law of Jehovah; and the special design of that book is to enforce obedience to that law." +7. Sound wisdom.+ Miller translates this word "_something stable_." It is used but twelve times in Scripture; in Job v. 12, it is translated "enterprise," but the rendering given here would well fit in the context there; and so in every other case. +That walk uprightly,+ literally "the walkers of innocence." +8.+ (_Heb._) _so as that_ "He may keep," or _protect_ the paths, etc., _i.e._ He manifests Himself as a shield that He may cause the upright to keep the paths of judgment (_Fausset_). +9. Righteousness,+ _etc._, the same three words used in chap. i. 3 (see Notes). +Every+ or "the whole" path. +10. When.+ Rather "if" or "because." This verse is antecedent to the consequence expressed in ver. 11. +Heart,+ the "seat of desire, the starting point for all personal self-determination" (_Lange_). +12. Deliver,+ "snatch," as a brand out of fire. +Evil man,+ rather "an evil way." +13.+ "Level" paths. +16. Strange,+ "unknown," "_wanton_" (see 1 Kings xi. 1-8). +17. Guide,+ or "companion," "confidant," her lawful husband. +18. House,+ in the East means "interests;" a man's whole blended well-being (Ex. i. 21).--_Miller._ (On Vers. 16-18 See Note at the beginning of Chap. vii.) _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.--Verses_ 1-5. HUMAN UNDERSTANDING AND DIVINE KNOWLEDGE.