Note the illustrations.

1. Contact with Phoenician commerce, and joint expeditions in ships of Tarshish (see Psalms 72:10 note), had made…

If thou seekest her as silver.— That the process of mining was understood long before the time of Solomon is proved by th…

If you seek her as silver
That is, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding; which all signify and relate unto one and th…

Those who earnestly seek heavenly wisdom will never complain that they have lost their labor; and the freeness of the gift does not do away with th…