John Trapp on Proverbs 3:2

Verſ. 2. For length of dayes] A ſweet mercy, and generally deſired, Pſal. 34.12. Short life is reckoned as a curſe, Pſal. 55.24. yet in ſome caſe, it is a bleſſing, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Dion. Pruſ. Orat. 28. 1 King. 14.13. Iſa. 57.1. [non-Latin text not transcribed], God taketh away his from the evil to come; as when there is a fire in an houſe or Town, men carry out their Jewels; but then God makes them up in his Cabinet, they do enter into peace, their ſouls go to heaven, they reſt in their beds, their bodies reſt ſweetly and ſafely in the grave till the reſurrection of the Juſt, Iſa. 57.2. And is not this far better than the longeſt life here? Length of dayes may prove a curſe, when it brings ſhame, ſorrow, &c. as it did to Cain, Cham, &c.

And peace ſhall they adde to thee] Without which, to live is nothing elſe but to lye a dying. Rebecca for want of this, was weary of her life; ſo was Elijah when hee ſate under the Juniper tree. All the dayes of the afflicted are evil, Prov. 15.15. [non-Latin text not transcribed], they dwell together, they do not live together, ſaid Themiſtocles of married folk that agree not. Non ille diu vixit, ſed diu fuit, ſaid Seneca of one. And again, Non multum navigavit, ſed multum jactatus eſt. Hee was toſſed much up and down, but ſailed not far, as being driven about by contrary winds.

Shall they adde to thee] Multiplicem pacem ſignificat, ſaith one, Peace, peace, as Iſa. 26.3. that is, a multiplied peace with God, with ones ſelf, with others, or a renewed continued peace, to day, to morrow, and every day: Or a perfect, ſheer, pure peace.