Proverbs 8:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. ”

• Proverbs 8:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Excellent - literally, “princely things.” The word is not the same as in marginal reference, and is elsewhere always used of persons (compare “captain” in 1 Samuel 9:16 ; 2 Samuel 5:2 ). The po...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  excellent. Hebrew. nagid . a prince, or representative. things. Hebrew. dabar . words (see App-73.) Hence. representative truths.

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• Proverbs 8:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things - נגידים negidim, things which are preeminent, and manifestl...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things - literally, 'princely things' ( nªgiydiym ( H5057...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The opening of my lips shall be right things. — That is, I will open my mouth to speak them.

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Hear; for I will speak of excellent things ,.... Such are the things of the Gospel; they not only excel what the light of nature dictates and directs to, but even what the law of Moses commands and...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips [shall be] right things. Ver. 6. I will speak of excellent things. ] ηγεμονικα; ruling cases, master sentences, axioms of sta...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Of excellent things, Heb. of princely things , worthy of princes to learn and practise them; or such as excel common things as much as princes do ordinary persons.

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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,...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Hear; for I will speak of excellent things. The excellency of wisdom Wisdom is represented as making a public appearance in a rude, ignorant, and corrupt world, loudly proclaiming her doctrines...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of the Messiah, the Personal Wisdom. The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts.

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• Proverbs 8:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 2:6 ; 1 Corinthians 2:7 ; Colossians 1:26 ; Job 33:1-3 ; Matthew 13:35 ; Matthew 5:2-12 ; Matthew 7:28 ; Matthew 7:29 ; Proverbs 2:6 ; Proverbs 2:7 ; Proverbs 22:20 ; Prover...

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