Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom cries aloud in an out-place, || She gives forth her voice in broad places,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
In Context
19So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, || It takes the life of its owners.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:1Wisdom has built her house, || She has hewn out her pillars—seven.
Matthew 13:54and having come to His own country, He was teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and were saying, “From where to this One this wisdom and the mighty works?
John 7:37And in the last, the great day of the celebration, Jesus stood and cried, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink;
1 Corinthians 1:30but out of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, 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 →