Proverbs 8:8

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 8:5-13

2). Wisdom Calls On The Naive And On Fools To Pay Heed To Her Words Because Her Instruction Is Both True And Valuable (Proverbs 8:5-13 ). Wisdom’s words come especially to the naive and to ‘fools’ (compare Proverbs 1:22), that is to those who are still grappling with life without having any agenda, often at a loose end (compare Proverbs 7:7), and at the behest of any voice that speaks to them, and those who, while believing vaguely in God, live their lives apart from His will and direction... 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 8:8

All the words of my mouth; all my precepts, promises, threatenings, &c. Nothing froward or perverse in them; not the least mixture of vanity, or error, or folly in them, as there is in the words of the wisest philosophers, &c. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 8:4-9

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 8:5. Wisdom. This is a different word from the one used in Proverbs 8:1, and may be translated “subtilty,” or “prudence,” and though it is here used in a good sense, may, when the context requires it, be translated “artful cunning.” Proverbs 8:6. Excellent, literally “princely,” generally rendered “plain,” “evident,” “obvious.” Proverbs 8:7. Mouth, lit. “palate.” Speak, literally, “meditate;” the word originally meant “mutter,” and grew to mean “meditate,” because what... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:1-36

Chapter 8In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" ( Colossians 2:3 ). So there are analogies that can definitely be drawn. Because Christ is the soul, the heart of wisdom. "In Him all the treasures of wisdom." So there are definite analogies that can be made to wisdom and to Jesus Christ, and there... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 8:1-36

Proverbs 8:1 . Doth not Wisdom cry? This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisdom of God. See on chap. 3. Proverbs 8:3 . She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city. The gate was the usual place where the elders sat at proper times, and heard complaints. It is probable that the prophets often addressed the people in the area of the gate. Jeremiah delivered his... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 8:8

Pro 8:8 All the words of my mouth [are] in righteousness; [there is] nothing froward or perverse in them. Ver. 8. All the words. ] The Rabbis have a saying, that there is a mountain of sense hanging upon every tittle of the Scriptures. There is nothing froward or perverse in them. ] Some places of Scripture may seem to cross other places, but they do only seem so. Men may think they are like the accusers of Christ, never a one speaking like the other; but those that understand them shall find... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 8:8

All: Psalms 12:6, Isaiah 45:23, Isaiah 63:1 there: Proverbs 8:13, John 7:46 froward: Heb. wreathed Reciprocal: Job 33:3 - the Job 36:4 - my Proverbs 4:24 - a Isaiah 8:16 - among Revelation 14:5 - in read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:8

8. In righteousness Are righteous, fair, honest. Froward Literally, twisty, crafty, tricky, deceitful. read more