Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
BSB
ASV
Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
KJV
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Wisdom crieth - Here wisdom is again personified, as it is frequently, throughout this book; where nothing is meant but the teachings given to man, either by Divine revelation or the voice of the Holy Spirit in the heart. And this voice of wisdom is opposed to the seducing language of the wicked mentioned above. This voice is everywhere heard, in public, in private, in the streets, and in the house. Common sense, universal experience, and the law of justice written on the heart, as well as the law of God, testify against rapine and wrong of every kind.
Others think that wisdom, as the divine attribute specially employed in acts of counsel and admonition, is here personified, and represents God. In either case the address is a most solemn and divine admonition, whose matter and spirit are eminently evangelical and impressive (see on Pr 8:1).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
1 Corinthians 1:24but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
leads to
It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
Through
Colossians 2:3in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
leads to
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
