Proverbs 8:32-33 WEB

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 8:32

children = sons. blessed = happy. See note on Proverbs 3:13 . read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 8:32

THE EPILOGUE"Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me;For blessed are they that keep my ways.Hear instruction, and be wise,And refuse it not.Blessed is the man that heareth me,Watching daily at my gates,Waiting at the posts of my doors.For whoso findeth me findeth life,And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul:And they that hate me love death.""This conclusion states the happiness of those who obey her (Wisdom), and the evil fate of those who reject... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 8:32

32-36. Such an attribute men are urged to seek. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 8:1-36

13. The function of wisdom ch. 8Chapter 8 is an apology (defense) of wisdom. The argument of this section develops as follows. Wisdom would be every person’s guide (Proverbs 8:1-5; cf. Galatians 5:18; Galatians 5:22-23). She is morality’s partner (Proverbs 8:6-13), the key to success (Proverbs 8:14-21), the principle of creation (Proverbs 8:22-31), and the one essential necessity of life (Proverbs 8:32-36). Chapter 8 contains the longest sustained personification in the Bible. [Note: Merrill,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 8:8-36

B. Instruction for Young People 1:8-8:36The two ways (paths, worldviews) introduced in Proverbs 1:7 stretch out before the reader (cf. Matthew 7:13-14). In this section Solomon spoke to his son, guiding him into God’s way. "My son" was and is a customary way of addressing a disciple."It derives from the idea that parents are primarily responsible for moral instruction (Proverbs 4:3-4; Deuteronomy 6:7)." [Note: Ross, p. 907.] The frequent recurrence of the phrase "my son" in this part of... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 8:32-36

The appeal to gain Wisdom 8:32-36On the basis of all that precedes, Solomon exhorted his sons to live by his words and thereby gain wisdom. Again, wisdom leads to life, but those who lack wisdom begin to die."Many have equated wisdom in this chapter with Jesus Christ. This connection works only so far as Jesus reveals the nature of God the Father, including his wisdom, just as Proverbs presents the personification of the attribute. Jesus’ claims included wisdom (Matthew 12:42) and a unique... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36

Wisdom’s CryWisdom 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 asserts that she was the first of all God’s creatures, who stood at His side when He formed our world, and took part in His work as a master workman, whose delight has always been in the lives and affairs of men. In Proverbs 8:1-21 we find only the ordinary kind of personification, in which a quality... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 8:32

(32) Now therefore hearken—i.e., now that ye know how great my power is, and what love I have to you, in that I rejoice in you, and call you my sons. (Comp. 1 John 3:1.) read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Proverbs 8:1-36

Supreme Acquisitions Proverbs 8:35-36 This striking contrast expresses the twofold universal classification of men those who find and those who miss true wisdom in life. I. Looking first at the darker side of the contrast we see sin revealed as being both a missing of the Divine purpose and also a process of self-destruction. For to miss Christ either by reason of engaging the heart's attention with other things, by the fatal power of careless inattention, or by engrossment in the search after... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:1-36

CHAPTER 9THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR"Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn. This chapter contains a lovely and living picture of Wisdom. In this contrast, as we have already seen, Vice can be presented as a vicious woman, because it is unhappily only too easy to find such an incarnation in actual experience: Wisdom, on the other hand, cannot be presented as an actual person, but only as a personification, because there was, as... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 8:32

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 8:32

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 8:32

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 8:1-36

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 8:8-36

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 8:32-36

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 8:32

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Proverbs 8:1-36

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:1-36

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