Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 8:36
(36) He that sinneth against me.—Rather, He that misses me does not find me. So in Greek, sin (ἁμαρτία) is a “missing” of the true object of life. read more
Proverbs-8
Charles John Ellicott
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
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36
CHAPTER 8 1. The call and appeal of wisdom (Proverbs 8:1-11 ) 2. What wisdom is and what wisdom gives (Proverbs 8:12-21 ) 3. Wisdom; the Person, who He is (Proverbs 8:22-31 ) 4. The renewed appeal (Proverbs 8:32-36 ) Proverbs 8:1-11 . This is one of the most interesting chapters in the entire book. It begins with a call and appeal of wisdom, much like the call and appeal of the first chapter. If wisdom calls, has a voice, then wisdom must also be a person. Who personified wisdom is we... read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Proverbs 8:1
8:1 Doth not {a} wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?(a) Solomon declares that man is the cause of his own perdition and that he cannot pretend ignorance, for God calls all men by his word and his works to follow virtue and flee from vice. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Proverbs 8:3
8:3 She crieth at {b} the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors.(b) Where the people resorted most and which was the place of justice. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Proverbs 8:9
8:9 They [are] all {c} plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.(c) Meaning that the word of God is easy to all that have a desire for it and are not blinded by the prince of this world. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Proverbs 8:12
8:12 I wisdom dwell with {d} prudence, and find out knowledge and discretion.(d) That is, unless a man has wisdom, which is the true knowledge of God, he can be neither a prudent nor good counsellor. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Proverbs 8:13
8:13 The fear of the LORD [is] to hate {e} evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.(e) So that he who does not hate evil, does not fear God. read more
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 8:35
(35) Whoso findeth me findeth life.—Comp. 1 John 5:12; John 8:51; and above, Proverbs 3:18, where Wisdom is described as a “tree of life.” read more