Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings;
And the years of your life shall be many.
I have taught you in the way of wisdom;
I have led you in right paths.
When you goes, your steps shall not be straitened;
And when you run, you shalt not stumble.
The book of Ecclesiastes, as already noted in our introductory chapter, portrayed the wrong path in which the royal writer had wandered, when for the time being, he forsook that Word which had been the guide of his youth, and gave himself up to commune with his own heart and to seek out a way of pleasure for himself.
It is not necessary to follow him in path of folly to learn their end. The book now before us marks ought right paths, the way of wisdom.
All who walk therein shall find their steps unstraitened, and shall be enabled to run without stumbling. How needful then to heed the exhortation that follows!
(Commentary by H.A. Ironside)