Proverbs 8:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

A companion picture to that in Proverbs 7, and serving in some measure to generalize and idealize it. Wisdom also calls Proverbs 8:5 to the “simple” and the “fools,” and they have to choose between her voice and that of the temptress.

Proverbs 8:1

1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?