Proverbs 8:29

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Proverbs 8:1-36

Third Group of Admonitory or Proverbial DiscoursesProverbs 8:1 to Proverbs 9:1814. A second public discourse of wisdom personifiedProverbs 8:1-36a) The richness of her gifts(Proverbs 8:1-21)1 Doth not wisdom cry aloud,and understanding lift up her voice?2 Upon the top of the high places, by the way,in the midst of the way she placeth herself.3 By the side of the gates, at the exit from the city,at the entrance to its doors she calleth aloud:4 “To you, ye men, I call,and my... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Proverbs 8:22-36

Finding Wisdom, Finding Life Proverbs 8:22-36 The world did not come into being by chance . It was created by an intelligent Creator. Nothing is arbitrary or by accident. Law is the expression of the perfect will of God. It is founded on the inherent necessity which is at the heart of all things; and it is according to unchanging law that all things subsist. Yet never forget that God is Redeemer, as well as Creator, and reserves to Himself the right of suffering the infliction of a broken... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36

The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of the book. It opens with an announcement that wisdom is making its appeal everywhere amid the busy activities of life. Then follows her call. This is, first, an appeal to men to attend (verses Pro 8:4-11 ). This they should do because wisdom speaks excellent things, and speaks in righteousness.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36

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 8:22-31

5) Wisdom Was With God In Creation And Rejoices In The Ongoing Of His Creation (Proverbs 8:22-31 ). Lest we have any doubt about what wisdom Solomon is speaking about he now makes it very clear (as he has indeed in he had in Proverbs 3:19-20, compare Proverbs 2:5-11). It is the wisdom and understanding that God used when He created and fashioned the heavens and the earth (Proverbs 3:19-20). It is God’s wisdom. And this Wisdom, which was necessarily present from eternity (God could never be... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36

Proverbs 8. Wisdom Speaks in her own Person.— This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a profounder presentation of wisdom as the moving principle in the ways of God. It reinforces the practical maxims of Proverbs 8:1-Judges : with the fundamental principle that the wise man is in harmony with God. Its date probably fixes the date of the whole section (see Introduction, and for a fuller... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 8:29

His decree; or, his bound or limits, to wit, those parts of the earth which border upon it. Not pass his commandment, i.e. not overflow the earth. Appointed, or laid, the foundations o the earth; either, 1. The centre of the earth; or, 2. The earth itself, which is the foundation of the world; or rather, 3. The firm standing of the earth upon its foundations, notwithstanding all the assaults which the waters of the sea or within the earth make against it; which is a singular work of God’s... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 8:22-31

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 8:22. Jehovah possessed me. The signification of this verb has been the subject of much discussion; ancient expositors, believing Wisdom here to be the eternal Son of God, deemed it necessary to reject the translation of the Septuagint, etc., who rendered it created, as the text then became an argument with Arians against the eternal co-existence of the Son. But most modern commentators, whatever view they take of the signification of “Wisdom,” agree in rejecting the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:22-30

Proverbs 8:22-30 This is a description of the original solitude of God by a witness, His only-begotten and well-beloved Son. I. This solitude was serene and happy. Even among men solitude is not always desolation. To make solitude happy two elements are required: first, that the mind be at ease and satisfied with itself; secondly, that it be employed also in some object out of itself. The serenity of God was, so to speak, composed of three elements: perfect self-satisfaction, profound... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:29-30

Proverbs 8:29-30 I. It is in the active service of life, in the work of the marketplace, in the interchange of thought and the collision of minds differently constituted, that wisdom speaks to us. She comes as with an evangel, which she proclaims to all, which shuts out none but those who shut it out, seeking in her infinite compassion the ignorant and the foolish. II. Wisdom yearns, as it were, for human sympathy, and the wide spaces of the universe would seem dark and cold to her if man were... read more

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Proverbs 8:1-36

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Proverbs 8:22-36

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:22-31

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 8:29

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 8:22-31

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:22-30

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:29-30

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