Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom forewarns far and wide; she bestows her voice in the streets.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
In Context
19Thus, the ways of all those who are greedy seize the souls of those who possess.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:1Wisdom has built a house for herself. She has hewn seven columns.
Matthew 13:54And arriving in his own country, he taught them in their synagogues, so much so that they wondered and said: “How can such wisdom and power be with this one?
John 7:37Then, on the last great day of the feast, Jesus was standing and crying out, saying: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink:
1 Corinthians 1:30But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who was made by God to be our wisdom and justice 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 →