Proverbs 8:1
It is as if wisdom, with great understanding of many things, is calling [PRS] out to people.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
In Context
2Wisdom stands on hilltops and at crossroads.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:20Wisdom [PRS] shouts to people in the streets, and calls out to people in the ◄plazas/town squares►.
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget what I have taught you. Keep my commands in your inner being,
Isaiah 49:1All you people who live on islands in the ocean and in other distant areas, pay attention [DOU] to what I will say! Yahweh called/chose me before I was born; he chose/appointed me when I was still in my mother’s womb.
Matthew 3:3John was the person who fulfilled what was said by Isaiah the prophet {what Isaiah the prophet predicted when he said}, long ago: In a desolate area ◄ people will hear someone/someone will be heard► shouting to the people who pass by, Prepare yourselves to receive the Lord when he comes! Make yourselves ready so that you will be prepared when he comes [MET, DOU], just like people improve and straighten out the road for an important official!
Matthew 28:19So go, and using my authority, teach my message to people of all ethnic groups so that they may become my disciples. Baptize them to be under the authority of [MTY] my Father, and of me, his Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Mark 16:15Later he said to them, “Go into the whole world and preach the good message to everyone!
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 →