“ Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. ”
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...
sound wisdom. See note on Proverbs 2:7 . understandings . discernment. See note on Proverbs 1:2 .
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. Counsel is mine - Direction how to act in all circumstances and on all occasions must come from wisdom: the foolish man can...
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom— Good government: Houbigant; who renders the next clause, Prudence is mine; mine is fortitude.
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. Counsel (is) mine, and sound wisdom. It is only with me that wisdom, solid, salutary, and substantial, in all possible...
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...
Sound wisdom. — See above on Proverbs 2:7 . Strength. — Comp. Ecclesiastes 7:19 . For these various gifts of wisdom, comp. Isaiah 11:2 .
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...
STRONG SON OF GOD! ‘I am understanding; I have strength.’ Proverbs 8:14 Consider (1) the self-assertion of Christ; (2) the bearing of that self-assertion on certain difficulties of our day....
Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom ,.... The words and sentiments in this and the following clause are the same with those in Job 12:13 ; and scent to be taken from thence, which are spoken of Go...
Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding; I have strength. Ver. 14. Counsel is mine, &c. ] Christ is "wise in heart, and mighty in strength," Job 9:4 his Church's both counsel...
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom Hebrew, ותושׁיה, and essence , that is, all solid, substantial, and useful wisdom is natural and essential to me. I am understanding By my nature and essence. O...
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...
Sound wisdom: all solid, and substantial, and useful, yea essential wisdom, is natural and essential to me, for the word properly signifies essence . I am understanding, or, my nature and essenc...
3). Wisdom Hates Evil Attitudes And Behaviour But Enables Just Government From Those Who Love Her ( Proverbs 8:13-17 ). This subsection which majors on wisdom's role in ensuring just government wh...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 8:14-16 THE SOURCE OF TRUE POWER I. Moral wisdom is the strength of kings . “I have strength; by me kings rule.” There is a kind of strength in all...
Proverbs 8:14 Consider (1) the self-assertion of Christ; (2) the bearing of that self-assertion on certain difficulties of our day. I. The self-assertion of Christ is exhibited in three ways: (1)...
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 have understanding; I have strength. The self-assertion of Christ Here is more than a florid personification of wisdom. It is the Word who is from everlasting--“Christ the power of God, and t...
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 Corinthians 1:24 ; 1 Corinthians 1:30 ; Colossians 2:3 ; Ecclesiastes 7:19 ; Ecclesiastes 9:16-18 ; Isaiah 40:14 ; Isaiah 9:6 ; John 1:9 ; Proverbs 2:6 ; Proverbs 2:7 ; Proverbs 24:5 ;...
Wisdom — All solid and substantial and useful wisdom is assential to me.