Proverbs 8:1 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 8:1

Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

KJV

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ASV

Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?

WEB

Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?

YLT

Doth not wisdom call? And understanding give forth her voice?

DBT

Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding give forth her voice?

About this book

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Proverbs 1:20–21
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Proverbs 9:3
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
Matthew 3:3
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Matthew 10:27
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
John 12:44
Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.

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The curses and blessings were read with a loud voice by the Levites, Deut. xxvii. And men's own hearts sometimes speak aloud to them; there are clamours of conscience, as well as whispers. They are proclaimed from on high (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The redeemer is the eternal Word and wisdom, the Logos. He is the Wisdom that speaks to the children of men in the former part of the chapter. All divine revelation passes through his hand, and centres in him; but of him as the personal Wisdom, the second person in the Godhead, in the judgment of many of the ancients, Solomon here speaks,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Possibly both may be joined together, and the chapter may be understood of Christ considered partly in his personal capacity, and partly in regard of his office, which was to impart the mind and will of God to mankind.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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