Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking
heed thereto according to thy word (Ps. 119:9).
However much men may interest themselves upon their own
works, there is nothing pure in their life until they have made a complete
surrender of themselves to the word of the Lord.
The more effectually to excite them to this, he produces, in
an especial manner, the example of children or youths. In mentioning these, he
by no means gives an unbridled license to those who have arrived at mature
years, or who are aged, as if they were competent to regulate their own life,
and as if their own prudence served as a law to them; but because youth puts
men where two ways meet, and renders it imperative for them to select the
course of life which they mean to follow, he declares that, when a person sets
about the regulation of his life, no advice will prove of any advantage, unless
he adopts the law of God as his rule and guide.
In this way the prophet stimulates men to an early and
seasonable regulation of their manners, and not to delay doing so any longer,
agreeably to the words of Solomon, “Remember thy Creator in thy youth, ere the
days of trouble come, and the years which shall be grief unto thee,” (Ecc.
12:1). (Commentaries)
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