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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?
Thou shalt proclaim wisdom, that understanding may be obedient to thee.
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 sends forth the raven, and it goes out, going out and turning back until the drying of the waters from off the earth.
and the dove has not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turns back to him, to the ark, for waters [are] on the face of all the earth, and he puts out his hand, and takes her, and brings her in to him, into the ark.
And Noah builds an altar to YHWH, and takes from every clean beast and from every clean bird, and causes burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;
during all [the] days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night never cease."
And it comes to pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembers Abraham, and sends Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.
And God remembers Rachel, and God listens to her, and opens her womb,
and God hears their groaning, and God remembers His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;
And Moses stretches out his hand toward the sea, and YHWH causes the sea to go on by a strong east wind all the night, and makes the sea become dry ground, and the waters are cleaved,
and the Messenger of YHWH says to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out for an adversary, for [your] way has been perverse before Me,
And they rise early in the morning, and bow themselves before YHWH, and turn back, and come to their house in Ramah, and Elkanah knows his wife Hannah, and YHWH remembers her;
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.
