Proverbs 3:13-14

13, 14. Here, from his digressions into the sundry particulars above, the instructor returns to the general theme, the excellency of true wisdom. Supremely happy is the man that findeth out, acquireth, this divine blessing understanding.

Getteth Hebrew, draws out.

Fine gold חרוצ , ( hharuts,) is a word which has exercised the ingenuity of the learned. Nothing very decisive has yet been arrived at as to its specific application. It is supposed to have been a technical word pertaining to the new commerce with Ophir possibly native gold, or a nugget of fine gold. It is also thought by some that our word carat, used in determining the proportionate fineness of gold, is a modification of this same word.

Merchandise Profits, as of the merchant. Miller refers Proverbs 3:13-14 emphatically to the man who has been chastened, (Proverbs 3:11-12,) and translates: O, the blessedness of the man! He has found wisdom, etc.