Verse 1Hide - Lay them up in thy heart with care, as men do their choicest treasures. Verse 3Criest - To God, the only giver of it. Verse 4Seek her - With unwearied diligence and earnest desire and patient expectation. Verse 8Path of judgment - Righteous paths, judgment being here put for righteousness. And keeping of paths may be put for keeping them in their paths. Verse 9Then - When God in answer to thy desires hath given thee wisdom. Equity - All the parts of thy duty to man, as well as the fear of God. Verse 10When - Thou dost truly love wisdom. Verse 13Darkness - Of sin. Verse 15Crooked - Who swerve from the straight way of God's law, and have windings and turnings, to escape conviction. Verse 16Strange woman - From the adulteress or whore. Verse 17Forsaketh - Her husband whom she took to be her guide and governor, in her youth. The covenant - The marriage covenant: so called because God is the author of that mutual obligation: and because God is called to be the witness and judge of that solemn promise and covenant. Verse 18For - Conversation with her (which was most usual in her own house) is the certain way to death, which it brings many ways, and undoubtedly, without repentance, to God's wrath and the second death. Verse 20That - This depends upon ver.11, and is mentioned as another happy fruit of wisdom.