Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in the sons of men.
Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights are with the sons of men.
rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights [were] with the sons of men.
Voices1
Strictly, God's attributes are part of Himself. Yet, to the poetical structure of the whole passage, this commendation of wisdom is entirely consonant. In order of time all His attributes are coincident and eternal as Himself.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
The verses this one reaches7
As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God.
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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.
The walk8
Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page, and every stop travels with its words.
Through
2 Corinthians 8:9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.
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He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?
who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Through
John 4:34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
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For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.