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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

simple. See note on <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+1:4">Proverbs 1:4</a> . wisdom. Hebrew. 'armah. Not the same word as in <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+8:1">Proverbs 8:1</a> = shrewdness. See note on <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+1:2">Proverbs 1:2</a> . fools. Hebrew. k sil. See note on <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+1:7">Proverbs 1:7</a> .

Verse 5

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

Verse 6

wickedness = lawlessness. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44 .

Verse 7

words = sayings. Hebrew. imrah. froward = twisted, or crafty.

Verse 8

better. Note the seventeen occurrences of this rendering of Hebrew. tob in Proverbs: <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+3:14">Proverbs 3:14</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+8:11">Proverbs 8:11</a> , <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+8:19">Proverbs 8:19</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+12:9">Proverbs 12:9</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+15:16">Proverbs 15:16</a> , <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+15:17">Proverbs 15:17</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+16:32">Proverbs 16:32</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+17:1">Proverbs 17:1</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+19:1">Proverbs 19:1</a> , <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+19:22">Proverbs 19:22</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+21:9">Proverbs 21:9</a> , <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+21:19">Proverbs 21:19</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+25:7">Proverbs 25:7</a> , <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+25:24">Proverbs 25:24</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+27:5">Proverbs 27:5</a> , <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+27:10">Proverbs 27:10</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+28:6">Proverbs 28:6</a> .

Verse 11

I wisdom dwell. Wisdom personified. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. App-6 . witty = sagacious. Anglo-Saxon witan, to know; like Greek. oida = to know intuitively: not by effort, which is ginosko = to get to know.

Verse 12

The fear, &amp;c. See note on <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+1:7">Proverbs 1:7</a> . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . hate. This is far beyond Zophar's mistaken definition of it in <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=job+28:28">Job 28:28</a> . A man may "depart" from evil from policy, while he loves it in his heart. But to "hate" it comes only from Divine wisdom. By nature men love evil (<a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=jer+17:9">Jeremiah 17:9</a> . <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=mt+7:17">Matthew 7:17</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=mt+15:19">Matthew 15:19</a> . <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=joh+3:19">John 3:19</a> . <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=ro+3:10-18">Romans 3:10-18</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=ro+8:7">Romans 8:7</a> , <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=ro+8:8">Romans 8:8</a> . <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=1co+2:14">1 Corinthians 2:14</a> .<a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=ga+1:5">Galatians 1:5</a> , <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=ga+1:17">Galatians 1:17</a> . <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=eph+2:2">Ephesians 2:2</a> , <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=eph+2:3">Ephesians 2:3</a> , <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=eph+2:12">Ephesians 2:12</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=eph+4:17-22">Ephesians 4:17-22</a> . <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=1ti+3:3">1 Timothy 3:3</a>; <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=1ti+3:3">1 Timothy 3:3</a> . <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=1jo+5:19">1 John 5:19</a> ). evil. Hebrew. ra'a'. App-44 . froward = perverse. mouth. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part), App-6 , for the whole man.

Verse 13

sound wisdom. See note on <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+2:7">Proverbs 2:7</a> . understandings = discernment. See note on <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=pr+1:2">Proverbs 1:2</a> .

Verse 14

By me kings reign. See <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=ps+75:6">Psalms 75:6</a> , <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=ps+75:7">Psalms 75:7</a> . <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=da+2:21">Daniel 2:21</a> , <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=da+2:47">Daniel 2:47</a> . <a target="_blank" href="/passage/?search=ro+13:1-7">Romans 13:1-7</a> .

Verse 15

judges of the earth. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Syriac, read "righteous judges"; reading zedek, "righteousness", instead of 'erez, "earth". Revised Version follows this.

Proverbs 8

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 8:5

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