Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
In Context
19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:1Wisdom has built her house. She has hewn out her seven pillars.
Matthew 13:54And having come into his fatherland he taught them in their synagogue, so as for them to be astonished, and say, From where is this wisdom and powers in this man?
John 7:37Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus had stood and cried out, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
1 Corinthians 1:30But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:11-20
Parental Admonitions. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to… Read the whole commentary →