Counsel ... judgment. —The cluster of words belonging to the sapiential vocabulary of the Book of Proverbs should be noted as para…

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure…

From whom took he counsel? The Prophet expresses the same thing in many ways, that we may know that nothing is more foolish than man, when…

With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him t…

All created beings shrink to nothing in comparison with the Creator. When the Lord, by his Spirit, made the world, none directed his Spirit, or gav…

1. Be comforted, be comforted. This is the second principal part of this book, in which the prophet primarily intends to comfort th…