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Brenton's Septuagint
Proverbs 8:1
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Doesn’t wisdom call out?
Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice?
Wisdom calls to you like someone shouting; understanding raises her voice.
Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice?
Does not wisdom call, And understanding lift up her voice?
Does not wisdom call, And understanding raise her voice?
Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?
Doeth not wisedome crie? and vnderstanding vtter her voyce?
Does not wisdom call,And discernment give forth her voice?
Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?
With great understanding, Wisdom is calling out
Wisdom is calling! Understanding is raising her voice!
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding give forth her voice?
Listen, Wisdom is calling. Yes, Understanding is shouting for us.
THEREFORE preach wisdom, and understanding will answer you.
Listen! Wisdom is calling out. Reason is making herself heard.
Does not wisdom call, and understanding raise its voice?
Does not wisdom call? And does not understanding speak?
Doth not wysdome crie? doth not vnderstondinge put forth hir voyce?
Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?
Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?
Doth not wisdom call, and understanding put forth her voice?
Doeth not Wisedome crie? & Understanding put foorth her voice?
Doth not wysdome crye? doth not vnderstanding put foorth her voyce?
Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice?
Whether wisdom crieth not ofte; and prudence yyueth his vois?
Does not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
Does not wisdom cry out, And understanding lift up her voice?
Listen as Wisdom calls out! Hear as understanding raises her voice!
Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice?
Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice?
Doth not, wisdom, cry aloud? and, understanding, send forth her voice?
Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?
Does not wisdom call, does not understanding raise her voice?
Doth not wisdom call? And understanding give forth her voice?
Do you hear Lady Wisdom calling? Can you hear Madame Insight raising her voice? She's taken her stand at First and Main, at the busiest intersection. Right in the city square where the traffic is thickest, she shouts, "You—I'm talking to all of you, everyone out here on the streets! Listen, you idiots—learn good sense! You blockheads—shape up! Don't miss a word of this—I'm telling you how to live well, I'm telling you how to live at your best. My mouth chews and savors and relishes truth— I can't stand the taste of evil! You'll only hear true and right words from my mouth; not one syllable will be twisted or skewed. You'll recognize this as true—you with open minds; truth-ready minds will see it at once. Prefer my life-disciplines over chasing after money, and God-knowledge over a lucrative career. For Wisdom is better than all the trappings of wealth; nothing you could wish for holds a candle to her.
Does not wisdom call, And understanding lift up her voice?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 1:20, Proverbs 1:21, Proverbs 9:1-3, Isaiah 49:1-6, Isaiah 55:1-3, Matthew 3:3, Matthew 4:17, Matthew 28:19, Matthew 28:20, Mark 13:10, Mark 16:15, Mark 16:16, Luke 24:47, John 7:37, Acts 1:8, Acts 22:21, Romans 15:18-21
Reciprocal: Proverbs 9:3 - she crieth Isaiah 45:19 - spoken Isaiah 46:12 - Hearken Jeremiah 2:2 - cry Jeremiah 17:19 - General Matthew 10:27 - that preach Matthew 22:9 - General Luke 8:8 - He that Luke 11:49 - the wisdom Luke 14:7 - put John 6:59 - in the John 12:44 - cried Acts 17:17 - daily 1 Corinthians 1:24 - the wisdom
Cross-References
And he sent forth a raven; and it went forth and returned not until the water was dried from off the earth.
And the dove not having found rest for her feet, returned to him into the ark, because the water was on all the face of the earth, and he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.
And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt-offering upon the altar.
All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.
And it came to pass that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about, God remembered Abraam, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot dwelt.
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and he opened her womb.
And God heard their groanings, and God remembered his covenant made with Abraam and Isaac and Jacob.
And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the Lord carried back the sea with a strong south wind all the night, and made the sea dry, and the water was divided.
And the angel of God said to him, Why hast thou smitten thine ass this third time? and, behold, I came out to withstand thee, for thy way was not seemly before me; and when the ass saw me, she turned away from me this third time.
And they rise early in the morning, and worship the Lord, and they go their way: and Helkana went into his house at Armathaim, and knew his wife Anna; and the Lord remembered her, and she conceived.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Doth not wisdom cry?.... Christ, who is the Wisdom of God;
:-; and which clearly appears from his subsistence with the Father, his eternal existence, and from many personal properties, characters, and actions ascribed to him throughout the whole of this chapter, and in the following. "Crying" is here attributed to him, which signifies proclaiming, publishing, preaching the everlasting Gospel, which directs men in the right way of enjoying peace, comfort, honour, and eternal happiness; the allusion is to an herald that this up his voice aloud at noon day in the public streets when he proclaims; and is opposed to the whispers of a harlot, at night, in a corner; truth seeks no corner, its voice is heard at noon day, it will bear the light. Now, "does not" or "shall not Wisdom cry", or Christ preach; verily he does or will, in his word, by his prophets under the former dispensation; in his own person, and by his apostles and ministers, under the present; who then would hearken to the alluring voice of a harlot, or hear Jezebel the wicked prophetess teach, when Christ himself preaches, or however by his faithful ministers?
and understanding put forth her voice? the same with Wisdom, or Christ, see Proverbs 8:14; by whose voice the Gospel is meant, which is the voice of Christ, which is heard and followed by the sheep of Christ, and not the voice of a stranger; and "putting it forth", giving or uttering it, signifies the publication of it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A companion picture to that in Proverbs 7:0, and serving in some measure to generalize and idealize it. Wisdom also calls Proverbs 8:5 to the “simple” and the “fools,” and they have to choose between her voice and that of the temptress.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER VIII
The fame and excellence of wisdom, and its manner of teaching,
1-4;
the matter of its exhortations, 5-12;
its influence among men, 13-21;
its antiquity, 22-31;
the blessedness of attending to its counsels, 32-35;
the misery of those who do not, 36.
NOTES ON CHAP. VIII.
Verse Proverbs 8:1. Doth not wisdom cry? — Here wisdom is again personified; but the prosopopoeia is carried on to a greater length than before, and with much more variety. It is represented in this chapter in a twofold point of view:
1. Wisdom, the power of judging rightly, implying the knowledge of Divine and human things.
2. As an attribute of God, particularly displayed in the various and astonishing works of creation.
Nor has it any other meaning in this whole chapter, whatever some of the fathers may have dreamed, who find allegorical meanings every where. The wise man seems as if suddenly awakened from the distressful contemplation which he had before him,-of the ruin of young persons in both worlds by means of debauchery,-by the voice of wisdom, who has lifted up her voice in the most public places, where was the greatest concourse of the people, to warn the yet unsnared, that they might avoid the way of seduction and sin; and cause those who love her to inherit substance, and to have their treasuries filled with durable riches.
