Proverbs 8:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. ”

Proverbs 8:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gold - The “choice, fine gold” of margin reference. The “fine gold” in the second clause is a different word, and perhaps represents gold extracted from the ore.
Proverbs 8:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Proverbs 8:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
Proverbs 8:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. My fruit (is) better than gold, yea, than fine gold. "My fruit" is the benefit derived from me ( Proverbs...
Proverbs 8:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Proverbs 8:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

My fruit.... my revenue. — i.e., the gain and profit which come from possessing me.
Proverbs 8:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Proverbs 8:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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...
Proverbs 8:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Proverbs 8:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my r...
Proverbs 8:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

My fruit [is] better than gold, yea, than fine gold ,.... This is said in allusion to the fruit that grows on trees, Wisdom, or Christ, being a tree of life, Proverbs 3:18 ; and so he is compared t...
Proverbs 8:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

My fruit [is] better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. Ver. 19. My fruit is better than gold. ] This wisdom is as those two golden pipes Zec 4:12 through which t...
Proverbs 8:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Proverbs 8:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Advantages of Wisdom. 12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. 13 The fear of...
Proverbs 8:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Proverbs 8:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

4). Wisdom Gives Riches And Honour Both Physically And Spiritually To Those Who Love Her, And Enables Men To Walk Rightly ( Proverbs 8:18-21 ). Wisdom does not just enable rulers. She also gives d...
Proverbs 8:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 8:17 . Early , i.e. , “earnestly” (see on ch. Proverbs 1:28 ). Proverbs 8:18 . Durable . Zöckler thinks this rather signifies “growing.” Proverbs 8:21 . Inherit...
Proverbs 8:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Proverbs 8:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Proverbs 8:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of the Messiah, the Personal Wisdom. The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts.
Proverbs 8:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 7:12 ; Proverbs 3:14 ; Proverbs 8:10

Proverbs 8:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 8:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 8:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 8:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 8:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 8:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 8:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 8:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 8:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 8:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 8:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 8:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 8:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 8:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 8:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 8:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 8:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge