Proverbs 8:1
Doth not wisdom cry aloud, And understanding put forth her voice?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
In Context
2Upon the top of the high places, By the wayside, In the cross-ways, She taketh her station.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:20Wisdom crieth out in the highway; In the market-place she uttereth her voice;
Proverbs 3:1My son, forget not my teaching, And let thy heart observe my precepts!
Isaiah 49:1Listen to me, ye distant lands! Attend, ye nations from afar! Jehovah called me at my birth; In my very childhood he called me by name.
Matthew 3:3For this is he that was spoken of through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths!”
Matthew 28:19Go, and make all nations my disciples, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;
Mark 16:15And he said to them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the glad tidings to the whole creation.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:1
The word of God is two-fold, and, in both senses, is wisdom; for a word without wisdom is of little value, and wisdom without a word is of little use. Now, I. Divine revelation is the word and wisdom of God, and that pure religion and undefiled which is built upon it; and of that Solomon here speaks, recommending it to us as faithful, and well worthy of all acceptation, ver. 1-21 . God, by it, instructs, and governs, and blesses, the children of men. II. The redeemer is the eternal Word and wisdom, the Logos. He… Read the whole commentary →