Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
World Messianic Bible
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 for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
21She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
Cross References
Proverbs 9:1Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.
Matthew 13:54Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
John 7:37Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Yeshua stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
1 Corinthians 1:30Because of him, you are in Messiah Yeshua, who was made to 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 →