He is not the guardian of the broad way--the way of the world and of sin. _That_ way Satan superintends, "the god of this world"--doing everything in his power, by all his various acts of enticement and intimidation, to keep his wretched subjects and victims from leaving it.--_Wardlaw._ He preserveth the way of His saints both from being drawn out of that way, and from all evil while they walk in it.--_Jackson._ If men will not keep their bounds, God will keep His. There is a right way for the saints to walk in. 1. Because else it were worse living in God's kingdom than in any other kingdom. For all kingdoms have rules of safety and of living. 2. God would be in a worse condition than the meanest master of a family. He would have no certain service.--_Francis Taylor._ Verse 9. Not as standing in speculation, but as a rule of life. Knowledge is either apprehensive only, or effective also. This differs from that as much as the light of the sun, wherein is the influence of an enlivening power, from the light of torches.--_Trapp._ Not only does it enlarge our _knowledge_ of God, but it brings us to a full _understanding_ of every practical obligation.--_Bridges._ Good signifies, 1. That which is just and right. 2. That which is profitable. 3. That which is pleasing. 4. That which is full and complete (Gen. xv. 15). . . . Men must grow from knowledge of some good duties to knowledge of others. They must go on till they know every good path.--_Francis Taylor._ Verse 10. Another picture of the results of living unto the Lord. Not that only to which it leads a man, but that from which it saves him, must be brought into view. Here, as before, there is a gradation in the two clauses. It is one thing for wisdom to find entrance into the soul, another to be welcomed as a "pleasant guest."--_Plumptre._ Spiritual joy mortifies sin. His mouth hankers not after homely provision that hath lately tasted of delicate sustenance. Pleasure there must be in the ways of God because therein men let out all their souls into God, the foundation of all good, hence they so infinitely distaste sin's tasteless fooleries.--_Trapp._ It was to open thus thy heart for wisdom that Christ's heart was open upon the cross; it was to make an entrance for wisdom into thy heart that the spear entered into the heart of thy Saviour. And what though wisdom enter thy heart at a breach, a wound? It is this that must heal thee and make thee sound.--_Jermin._ Here only has it any life or power. While it is only in the head it is dry, speculative, barren. . . . Before it was the object of our search; now, having found it, it is our pleasure.--_Bridges._ It is pleasure that can compete with pleasure. It is joy and peace in believing that can overcome the pleasures of sin. . . . A human soul, by its very constitution, cannot be frightened into holiness. It is made for being won, and won it will be, by the drawing on this side or the drawing on that.--_Arnot._