Proverbs 1:20-Isaiah

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-33

the Call of Wisdom Proverbs 1:20-33 The word Wisdom and the description of her standing atthe head of the noisy streets- see Proverbs 1:21 , r.v., margin-remind us of our Lord, who, as the Word of God, stood and cried, John 7:37 . It is a remarkable picture of the world as it is today. The streets filled with traffickers, with the bawling of wares, with the crowds of idle sightseers, and amid it all the ringing appeal of Christ to the heart of man! But the scorners deride and mock, while... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 1:1-33

The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people. Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God; intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine wisdom; and, volitionally, obedience rendered thereto. The first verse of this chapter constitutes the title of this Book, and the following six verses contain what we today would speak of as preface. That preface first declares the purpose of the Book in terms so simple as to need no comment (verses Pro... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-33

Wisdom's Call Proverbs 1:20-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Where the voice of Wisdom is heard. Wisdom doth not speak alone among the wise. She doth not sound forth her voice alone in cloistered circles, where the sanctified meet to discuss the ways of righteousness. Mark the force of, these words: 1. "Wisdom crieth without." 2. Wisdom "uttereth her voice in the streets." 3. Wisdom "crieth in the chief place of concourse." 4. Wisdom crieth "in the openings of the gates." (5) Wisdom uttereth her... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:8-33

Prologue To The Book (Proverbs 1:8 to Proverbs 9:18 ). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings’ that would follow. Those sayings would then be introduced by a subheading. Proverbs thus follows the usual precedent in having such a prologue in Proverbs 1:8 to Proverbs 9:18, followed by general sayings in Proverbs 10:1 ff headed by a subheading (Proverbs 10:1). It was also common for such a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20-23

Wisdom Is Depicted As Crying Out In Longing That People Will Respond To Her Words And Gain From What She Offers (Proverbs 1:20-23 ). Wisdom is now personified as a woman crying out to people to respond to her words. She is in direct contrast to the woman who cries out to young men seeking to lead them astray (Proverbs 2:1-19; Proverbs 7:8-27) whose name is Folly (Proverbs 9:13-18). See also Proverbs 5:3-11; Proverbs 6:24-35. Thus God’s Wisdom is to be the palliative to immoral yearnings. The... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20-33

Wisdom Is Depicted As Crying Out To Be Heard, Longing For Response, Promising Inculcation Of Her Own Spirit, And Warning Of The Consequences Of Refusal (Proverbs 1:20-33 ). We have here the first of the wisdom passages, where Wisdom herself speaks, crying out to be heard and warning of the consequences of refusal. But Wisdom is essentially God’s Wisdom. Consider especially Proverbs 3:19-20; Proverbs 8:22-31. Thus when Wisdom speaks, God speaks. The passage conveys its ideals chiastically: A ... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:1-33

Proverbs 1-9. First Section. The Praise of Wisdom. Proverbs 1:1 . Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection.The word for proverb, mâ shâ l, has a wide significance in Heb. ( see BDB) . Probably it originally expressed a comparison or allusion, drawn from history or nature, and employed to convey a taunt or satire, hence the rendering “ taunt-song.” For different meanings cf. Numbers 21:27, Deuteronomy 28:37, Job 13:12, Isaiah 14:4, Ezekiel 12:23. Ezekiel’ s use... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:20

Having expressed the counsels and invitations of folly and of wicked men, he now declareth the voice of wisdom. By the name of wisdom or wisdoms he seems to understand the wisdom or counsel of God revealed to the sons of men by his word. Which he calls wisdoms here, as also Proverbs 9:1, either to note the excellency of this wisdom beyond all other, as the greatest and chief of beasts is called behemoth or beasts, Job 40:15; or because it consisteth of a multitude of wise precepts; or because... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-32

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 1:20. The word wisdom is in the plural form in the Hebrew. Proverbs 1:27. Desolation, or “tempest.” Proverbs 1:28. To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See ch. Proverbs 8:17, Hosea 5:15. The person now changes from the second to the third, “as though wisdom were increasing alienated” (Miller). Proverbs 1:32. The turning away of the simple, i.e., their rejection of wisdom. Prosperity, “Security,” “idle, easy rest.”MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH—Proverbs 1:20-23THE CRY OF... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-22

Proverbs 1:20-22 The wisdom of God is a manifold wisdom. While it centres bodily in Christ, and thence issues as from its source, it is reflected and re-echoed from every object and every event. Every law of nature and every event in history has a tongue by which wisdom proclaims God's holiness and rebukes man's sin. Three classes of persons seem to be singled out here, and to each is administered an appropriate reproof: I. The simple, who love simplicity. Probably we should not be far from the... read more

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-33

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 1:1-33

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-33

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:8-33

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20-23

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20-33

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:1-33

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:20

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-32

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-22

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