The Pulpit Commentary — Proverbs — Section 74

eon whom 110 loves. The idea of the p:i.~sage in Heb. xii. 5, evidently arises from the is evidently tnken from Deut. viii. 5, "Thou translators having read :i~?'. (yalcev), " ho shalt also consider in thine henrt, that as a. scourgeth" for :itp1 (vuk'av), "even as n man chasteneth his son, eo the Lord thy God father." It will be seen that this alteration chaeteneth thee." The idea. of the paternal could be easily lilffected by a change in the relationship of God to mankind ia found Masoretic pointing. (5) '.rhe Vulgo.te ren- elsewhere (Jer. xxxi. 9; Mal. ii, 10), and ders, et quasi pater in jilio complacet sibi. especially finds expression in the Lord's He delighteth; yir'lseh is fiom ratsah, "to prayer. When the truth of this pnsea.ge ie be delighted" with a.ny person or tl,iog. learned, we shall be clra.wn to, rather than repelled from, God by his corrections. The Vel'3. 13-18.-The teacher here enters gracious end of earthly trials is expressed in upon the last part of this discourse. In Heb. xii. 6, 2; cf. Rom. v. 3-5; 2 Cor. iv. doing so, be reverts to his main sn bject, 17 (Wardlaw). "These gracious words which is Wisdom, or the fear of the Lord (Heb. xii.) a.re written in Holy Scripture for (see ver. 7 and eh. i. 7), a.nd pronounces a. our comfort and inetrnction ; that we should patiently and witli thanksgiving bea.r our panegyric upon her, comparing her, as in heavenly Fa.the1·'s correction, whensoever by Job xxviii., with treasures whose value she any manner of adversity it shall please his exceeds, and showing wherein tha.t value gracious goodness to visit us" (see Visita- consists, viz. in tbe gifts which she confers tion Office). Even as a father the son in on man. whom he delighteth ('llulc'av eth-ben yir'tseh); litera.Uy, even as a father the son Ver. 13.-Xappy is the man (ash'rey he delighteth in. Various renderings ha.ve adam); literally, blessings of the man. The been given to this passage. (1) Delitzsch, plnral of" excellence" used here, ns in Job De Watte, et al., agree with the Authorized v. 17, to raise the sense. The man who has Version, and take , vau, as explicative, and found Wisdom is supremely blessed. Bedi> yir'ueh, "in whom he delighteth," as a connects this ble8sedness i=ediately with relo.tive sentence. The , is used in this God's cha.stisemeuts in the preceding verse. explanatory sense in 1 Sam. xxviii. 3 (see So Delitzsch. That findeth ( matsa) ; pro- Gesenius, § 155. 1 a). The relative asher, perly, hath found. "The perfect expresses "whom," is omitted in the original, accord• permanent possession, just as the imperfect, ing to the rule that the relative is omitted, yaphik, denotes a continnally renewed e.nd especially in poetry, where it would stand ns repeated attaining" (Zockler). The Vul- a pronoun in the nominative or nccuse.tive gate o.lso uses the perfect, inve-nit, " hath cnso (comp. Ps. vii. 16, "And he fa.lie into found ; " LXX., fa •~p•, "who found "-the the pit (which) he niade;" and eh. v. aorist. The man thnt getteth understanding 13). We have the same elision ot the rela- (adam yaphik t'vunah); litero.lly, the man tive in the English colloquial expression, that draweth out understanding, as in the "the friend I met" (see Gesenius, § 123. 3, margin. Yaphik is the hipb. future or a). (2) Hitzig and Zockler translate, "nnd imperfect of pule, the primary meo.ning of holds him dear ns a fo.ther his son." .This, which is educere, ''to d.i·nw out," "to bring though grammntically correct, doGe not pre- forth." This verb is used in two widely serve the parallelism. It serves only to different senses. In the first pince, it is expand the idea of love, where11s the pre- equivalent to "bring forth" or "draw out" dominnnt idea of the verse is that of cor- in the sense of imparting, a, in La. !viii. 10, rection, to '\'l"hich love is nn accessory iden "If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry," (see Delitzsch). For simila.r parallels, see i.e. imp1ut benefits to them; nudPs. cxliv. 13, Deut. viii. 5 e.s bel'ore, nud Ps. ciii. 13. In " That our garners may be full, a_fford mg ull the comparison which is instituted, yir'tseh, manner of store," i.e. yielding, giving out, '' in whom he delighteth,'' corresponds with presenting for our benefit. Its second sense eth asher ye'hav y'hovah, "whom the Lord is that of attaining, drawing oat from loveth," and not with yokiah, "con-ecteth." nnother for one's own use. In this sense it (8) Ke.mph tmnslntes, '' and (deo.leth) as n occurs in eh. viii. 35; xii. 2; x.viii. 22, where father (who) wisheth well to his son." This it is rendered "obtain." The latter sense is iH substantially the same as the Authorized the one that suits the present po.ssnge, und Version, except thnt iu the relative sentence best agrees with the corresponding matsa. "son" is made accusative nfter yir'tseh, here The man is blessed who draws forth, i.e. trnnslated, " wisheth well to," and the obtains, understanding from God for him- omitted relative ( asher) is plnced in the slJif. The Vulga.te renders, qui ajffoit pru- nomino.tive instead of the acous11tive case. dentiu, "who overflows with uuderst:1.lllliug," (4) The vnriatiou in the LXX., µa.rr-r,-yoi 8, or, ho.s understanding in abundance; LXX., ,rav-ra. Mov &v ,ra.pa.':i•xna.1, " nnd scourgeth &s ,Ta,, oquivulent to "who saw." every son whom he receiveth," cited literally Ver. 14.-The merchandise (sal,h'ra/1);  60 THE PROVERBS. [011. m. 1-36.