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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
Proverbs 1:20
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Wisdom calls out in the street;she makes her voice heard in the public squares.
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice;
Wisdom is like a woman shouting in the street; she raises her voice in the city squares.
Wisdom calls out in the street, she shouts loudly in the plazas;
Wisdom shouts in the street, She raises her voice in the markets;
Wisdom shouts in the street, She raises her voice in the public square;
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.
Wisdom shouts in the street,She gives forth her voice in the square;
Wisdom shouts in the streets wherever crowds gather.
Wisdom calls aloud in the open air and raises her voice in the public places;
Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;
Listen! Wisdom is shouting in the streets. She is crying out in the marketplace.
Wisdom is glorified in the market places; she raises her voice in the streets:
Listen! Wisdom is calling out in the streets and marketplaces,
Wisdom calls out in the streets, in the squares she raises her voice.
Wisdom cries aloud outside; she gives her voice in the square;
Wy?dome crieth without, & putteth forth hir voyce in the stretes.
Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;
Wisdom crieth aloud in the streets, she uttereth her voice in the broad places;
Wisedome crieth without, she vttereth her voice in the streets:
Wisdome cryeth without, and putteth foorth her voyce in the streetes:
Wisdom sings aloud in passages, and in the broad places speaks boldly.
Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; she uttereth her voice in the broad places;
Wisdom prechith with outforth; in stretis it yyueth his vois.
Wisdom cries aloud in the street; She utters her voice in the broad places;
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares.
Wisdom shouts in the streets. She cries out in the public square.
Wisdom calls out in the street. She lifts her voice in the center of town.
Wisdom cries out in the street; in the squares she raises her voice.
Wisdom, in the open place, soundeth forth, in the broadways, she raiseth her voice;
Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Wisdom cries aloud in the street; in the markets she raises her voice;
Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,
Lady Wisdom goes out in the street and shouts. At the town center she makes her speech. In the middle of the traffic she takes her stand. At the busiest corner she calls out:
Wisdom shouts in the street, She lifts her voice in the square;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Wisdom: Heb. Wisdoms, that is, excellent wisdom, Matthew 13:54, Luke 11:49, 1 Corinthians 1:24, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Colossians 2:3
crieth: Proverbs 8:1-5, Proverbs 9:3, John 7:37
Reciprocal: Psalms 25:8 - teach Psalms 49:1 - Hear Song of Solomon 3:2 - the streets Jeremiah 2:2 - cry Jeremiah 7:2 - Stand Jeremiah 17:19 - General Jeremiah 19:2 - and proclaim Jeremiah 35:14 - rising Matthew 10:27 - that preach Matthew 13:19 - and understandeth Matthew 22:9 - General Mark 2:13 - and all Luke 8:8 - He that Luke 14:21 - Go John 6:59 - in the John 12:44 - cried Acts 17:17 - daily
Cross-References
So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
Then God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and wild animals according to their kinds." And it was so.
God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth-everything that has the breath of life in it-I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Bring out all the living creatures that are with you-birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground-so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it."
He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
wild animals and all cattle, crawling creatures and flying birds,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wisdom crieth without,.... Here the person instructing throughout this whole book is represented under the name of "Wisdom"; by which we are to understand not the attribute of divine wisdom displayed in the works of creation; nor the light of nature in man; nor the law of Moses given to the Israelites; nor the revelation of the divine will in general, as it is delivered out in the sacred Scriptures; nor the Gospel, and the ministry of it, in particular; but our Lord Jesus Christ; for the things spoken of Wisdom, and ascribed to it in this book, especially in the eighth and ninth chapters, show that a divine Person is intended, and most properly belong to Christ; who may be called "Wisdoms" b, in the plural number, as in the Hebrew text, because of the consummate and perfect wisdom that is in him; as he is a divine Person, he is "the Logos", the Word and Wisdom of God; as Mediator, "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge [are] hid" in him, Colossians 2:3; and, as man, "the Spirit of Wisdom" rests upon him without measure, Isaiah 11:2. This, with what follows to the end of the chapter, is a prophecy of the ministry of Christ in the days of his flesh, and of the success of it; and of the calamities that should come upon the Jews for the rejection of him: and Wisdom is here said to "cry", as Christ did, John 7:28; the word signifies to cry both in a sorrowful way, as Jesus did when he cried to Jerusalem, weeping over it, Matthew 23:37; and in a joyful one, which well suits with the Gospel, as preached by him; a joyful sound expressed by piping, in opposition to John's ministry, which was a mournful one, Matthew 11:17; for crying here means no other than the preaching of the word; which is such a cry as that of heralds, when they publicly proclaim peace or war; so Wisdom or Christ, is said to "proclaim liberty to the captives", and "the acceptable year of the Lord", Isaiah 61:1. This cry was made "without" the city of Jerusalem, and without that part of the country which was properly called Jewry; Christ first preached in the land of Galilee; or this may mean the Gentile world, where Christ preached, though not in person, yet by his apostles, whom he sent into all the world to preach the Gospel to every creature;
she uttereth her voice in the streets: of the city of Jerusalem, and other places; nor is this contrary to Matthew 12:19; which is to be understood of crying in a bawling and litigious way, of lifting up the voice in self-commendation, neither of which Christ did; and yet might cry and utter his voice in the streets, that is, publicly preach his Gospel there, as he did; and he also sent his servants into the streets and lanes of the city to call in sinners by the ministry of the word,
Luke 14:21; which perhaps may be meant of places in the Gentile world; nor is this sense to be excluded here; it may be figuratively understood of the public ministration of the word and ordinances in the church called the streets and broad ways of it, Song of Solomon 3:2.
b חכמות "sapientiae", Montanus, Vatablus, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wisdom is personified. In the Hebrew the noun is a feminine plural, as though this Wisdom were the queen of all wisdoms, uniting in herself all their excellences. She lifts up her voice, not in solitude, but in the haunts of men “without,” i. e., outside the walls, in the streets, at the highest point of all places of concourse, in the open space of the gates where the elders meet and the king sits in judgment, in the heart of the city itself Proverbs 1:21; through sages, lawgivers, teachers, and yet more through life and its experiences, she preaches to mankind. Socrates said that the fields and the trees taught him nothing, but that he found the wisdom he was seeking in his converse with the men whom he met as he walked in the streets and agora of Athens.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 1:20. Wisdom crieth — Here wisdom is again personified, as it is frequently, throughout this book; where nothing is meant but the teachings given to man, either by Divine revelation or the voice of the Holy Spirit in the heart. And this voice of wisdom is opposed to the seducing language of the wicked mentioned above. This voice is everywhere heard, in public, in private, in the streets, and in the house. Common sense, universal experience, and the law of justice written on the heart, as well as the law of God, testify against rapine and wrong of every kind.
