Proverbs 8:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. ”

Proverbs 8:5 - 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 8:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

simple. See note on Proverbs 1:4 . wisdom. Hebrew. 'armah. Not the same word as in Proverbs 8:1 . shrewdness. See note on Proverbs 1:2 . fools. Hebrew. k sil. See note on Proverbs 1:7...
Proverbs 8:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. O ye simple - פתאים pethaim, ye that are deceived, and with flattering words and fair speeches deluded and drawn away....
Proverbs 8:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. O ye simple, understand wisdom; and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. "Wisdom" (Chakmah) in Proverbs...
Proverbs 8:5 - 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 8:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

O ye simple. — See above on Proverbs 1:4 for an explanation of “simple,” as also of “wisdom” (‘o rmah ) there translated “subtilty.” Ye fools. — ( khesîlîm ) , see above on Proverbs 1:22 .
Proverbs 8:5 - 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 8:5 - 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 8:5 - 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 8:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. For my mouth shall speak...
Proverbs 8:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

O ye simple, understand wisdom ,.... The Gospel, the wisdom of God in a mystery, particularly the doctrine of salvation by Christ; it is the highest wisdom to know Christ and him crucified: and they...
Proverbs 8:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Ver. 5. O ye simple. ] If ye be not set in sin, resolved of your way, as good as ye mean to be; if yet there be any...
Proverbs 8:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

She standeth in the top of high places Where she may be best seen and heard; not in corners, and in the dark, as the harlot did; by the way in the places of the paths Where many paths meet, where...
Proverbs 8:5 - 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 8:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? 2 She standeth in the top of...
Proverbs 8:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ye simple; who want knowledge and experience, and are easily deceived. Ye fools; wilful and obstinate sinners.
Proverbs 8:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Proverbs 8:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 8:5 . Wisdom . This is a different word from the one used in Proverbs 8:1 , and may be translated “subtilty,” or “prudence,” and though it is here used in a good sense,...
Proverbs 8:5 - 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 8:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Are you a fool? The word “fool” is derived from a Latin verb, signifying “to be inflated with air”; substantive, “a wind-bag.” So a fool is a witless,...
Proverbs 8:5 - 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 8:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of the Messiah, the Personal Wisdom. The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts.
Proverbs 8:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:28 ; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ; Acts 26:18 ; Isaiah 42:13 ; Isaiah 55:1-3 ; Proverbs 1:22 ; Proverbs 9:4 ; Psalms 19:7 ; Psalms 94:8 ; Revelation 3:17 ; Revelation 3:18
Proverbs 8:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ye simple — Who want knowledge, and experience. Fools — Wilful sinners.

Proverbs 8:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 8:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 8:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 8:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 8:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 8:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 8:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 8:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 8:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 8:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 8:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 8:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 8:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 8:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 8:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 8:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 8:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 8:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 8:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 8:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes