“ I wisdom dwell with prudence,c and find out knowledge of witty inventions. ”
Wisdom first speaks warnings ( Proverbs 1:24 note), next promises ( Proverbs 2:1 note); but here she neither promises nor threatens, but speaks of her own excellence. “Prudence” is the “subtilty”...
I wisdom dwell with (d) prudence, and find out knowledge and discretion. (d) That is, unless a man has wisdom, which is the true knowledge of God, he can be neither a prudent nor good counsellor.
Proverbs 8. Wisdom Speaks in her own Person. This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a prof...
I wisdom dwell. Wisdom personified. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. App-6. witty . sagacious. Anglo-Saxon witan, to know; like Greek. oida . to know intuitively: not by effort, which is gino...
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. I wisdom dwell with prudence - Prudence is defined, wisdom applied to practice; so wherever true wisdom is, it will lead to a...
And find out knowledge of witty inventions— And penetrate the knowledge of right things. Schultens; who observes, that the first clause contains a very splendid image, "I wisdom inhabit prudence...
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. I wisdom dwell with prudence - I am most intimately associated with her. Compare the phrase "dwell with," in Isaiah...
Wisdom's Cry Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she...
Dwell with prudence. — ( ‘ormah ) , literally, inhabit it, have settled down and taken up my abode with it, am at home there. Witty inventions. — Literally, well thought out plans ( mezimmô...
CHAPTER 9 THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR "Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1 In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn. This chapter contains a lovely and living pictu...
“Better than Gold” Proverbs 8:1-21 This chapter contains a bewitching picture of Wisdom as a noble matron. Were it not for this feminine touch, we might, suppose that the Preacher had become a...
The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of...
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Counsel is mi...
I Wisdom dwell with Prudence ,.... Here Wisdom begins to speak in her own person, and continues to do so unto the end of the chapter; or Christ describes himself, pencils out and draws his own pictu...
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. Ver. 12. I wisdom dwell with prudence. ] I draw all into practice, and teach men to prove by their own experience, what "t...
I wisdom dwell with prudence I do not content myself with high speculations, but my inseparable companion is prudence, to govern all my own actions, and to direct the actions of others. This is sai...
To the writer Proverbs 8:1-36 provides one of the clearest proofs that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not the only Scripture that proves this precious and won...
The Advantages of Wisdom. 12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. 13 The fear of...
Dwell with prudence; I do not content myself with high speculations, but my inseparable companion is prudence, to govern all my own actions, and to direct the actions of others, by good counsels. T...
2). Wisdom Calls On The Naive And On Fools To Pay Heed To Her Words Because Her Instruction Is Both True And Valuable ( Proverbs 8:5-13 ). Wisdom's words come especially to the naive and to ‘fools...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 8:12 . Dwell with or “inhabit.” Witty inventions , “skilful plans” (Stuart) , “sagacious counsels” (Zöckler) Proverbs 8:14 . Sound wisdom , the same word as in...
Proverbs 8:1 . Doth not Wisdom cry? This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and W...
I, Wisdom, dwell with Prudence. Prudence This has been brought into unmerited contempt by being associated with what is really its opposite. The abuse of the title has led to practical evils. I...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 8:1-20 14. Fourteenth admonitory discourse concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1-20 ; and...
Of the Messiah, the Personal Wisdom. The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts.
1 Chronicles 28:12 ; 1 Chronicles 28:19 ; 1 Kings 7:14 ; 2 Chronicles 13:14 ; Colossians 2:3 ; Ephesians 1:11 ; Ephesians 1:8 ; Ephesians 3:10 ; Exodus 31:3-6 ; Exodus 35:30-35 ; Exodus 36...
I dwell — My inseparable companion is prudence to govern all my actions, and to direct the actions of others. Find out — I help men to find out. Inventions — Of all ingenious contrivances for the g...