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Proverbs (Mishlei) is the manual of applied wisdom for covenant living. Wisdom in Proverbs is not abstract philosophy but ordered perception of reality — the recognition that creation has a moral grain, that fear of YHWH is the beginning of all true knowledge, and that human flourishing follows the design built into the fabric of things.
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- Primary Witness Text: Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. I lead in...
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Proverbs (Mishlei) is the manual of applied wisdom for covenant living. Wisdom in Proverbs is not abstract philosophy but ordered perception of reality — the recognition that creation has a moral grain, that fear of YHWH is the beginning of all true knowledge, and that human flourishing follows the design built into the fabric of things.
Proverbs 8's personified Wisdom — present at creation, delighting before God — is cited by early Church Fathers as a window into the eternal Son. The book's practical ethics (sexual integrity, speech, work, generosity) embody a worldview in which creation's design is the source of moral instruction.
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Proverbs 8:1
Hebrew
הֲלֹֽא־חָכְמָה תִקְרָא וּתְבוּנָה תִּתֵּן קוֹלָֽהּ׃halo'-chakhemah-tiqera'-vtevvnah-titen-qvolah
KJV: Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
AKJV: Does not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
ASV: Doth not wisdom cry,
YLT: Doth not wisdom call? And understanding give forth her voice?
Exposition: Proverbs 8:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:2
Hebrew
בְּרֹאשׁ־מְרוֹמִים עֲלֵי־דָרֶךְ בֵּית נְתִיבוֹת נִצָּֽבָה׃vero'sh-mervomiym-'aley-darekhe-veyt-netiyvvot-nitzavah
KJV: She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
AKJV: She stands in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
ASV: On the top of high places by the way,
YLT: At the head of high places by the way, Between the paths she hath stood,
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Proverbs 8:2
Verse 2 In the places of the paths - בית נתיבת נצבה beith nethiboth nitstsabah, "The constituted house of the paths." Does not this mean the house of public worship? the tabernacle or temple, which stands a center to the surrounding villages, the paths from all the parts leading to and terminating at it? In such a place, where the holy word of God is read or preached, there in a particular manner does wisdom cry, and understanding lift up her voice. There are the warnings, the precepts, and the promises of eternal truth; there the bread of God is broken to his children, and thither they that will may come and take the water of life freely.
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Proverbs 8:2
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:3
Hebrew
לְיַד־שְׁעָרִים לְפִי־קָרֶת מְבוֹא פְתָחִים תָּרֹֽנָּה׃leyad-she'ariym-lefiy-qaret-mevvo'-fetachiym-taronah
KJV: She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
AKJV: She cries at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
ASV: Beside the gates, at the entry of the city,
YLT: At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she crieth aloud,
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Proverbs 8:3
Verse 3 She crieth at the gates - This might be well applied to the preaching of Jesus Christ and his apostles, and their faithful successors in the Christian ministry. He went to the temple, and proclaimed the righteousness of the Most High: he did the same in the synagogues, on the mountains, by the sea-side, in the villages, in the streets of the cities, and in private houses. His disciples followed his track: in the same way, and in the same spirit, they proclaimed the unsearchable riches of Christ. God's wisdom in the hearts of his true ministers directs them to go and to seek sinners. There are, it is true, temples, synagogues, churches, chapels, etc.; but hundreds of thousands never frequent them, and therefore do not hear the voice of truth: wisdom, therefore, must go to them, if she wishes them to receive her instructions. Hence the zealous ministers of Christ go still to the highways and hedges, to the mountains and plains, to the ships and the cottages, to persuade sinners to turn from the error of their ways, and accept that redemption which was procured by the sacrificial offering of Jesus Christ.
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Proverbs 8:3
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- Jesus
- Most High
- Christ
- Jesus Christ
Exposition: Proverbs 8:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:4
Hebrew
אֲלֵיכֶם אִישִׁים אֶקְרָא וְקוֹלִי אֶל־בְּנֵי אָדָֽם׃'aleykhem-'iyshiym-'eqera'-veqvoliy-'el-veney-'adam
KJV: Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
AKJV: To you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
ASV: Unto you, O men, I call;
YLT: `Unto you, O men, I call, And my voice is unto the sons of men.
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Verse 4 Unto you, O men - אישים ishim, men of wealth and power, will I call; and not to you alone, for my voice is אל בני אדם al beney Adam, "to all the descendants of Adam;" to the whole human race. As Jesus Christ tasted death for every man, so the Gospel proclaims salvation to all: to You - to every individual, my voice is addressed. Thou hast sinned; and thou must perish, if not saved by grace.
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Proverbs 8:4
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- Adam
Exposition: Proverbs 8:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:5
Hebrew
הָבִינוּ פְתָאיִם עָרְמָה וּכְסִילִים הָבִינוּ לֵֽב׃haviynv-feta'yim-'aremah-vkhesiyliym-haviynv-lev
KJV: O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
AKJV: O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be you of an understanding heart.
ASV: O ye simple, understand prudence;
YLT: Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,
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Verse 5 O ye simple - פתאים pethaim, ye that are deceived, and with flattering words and fair speeches deluded and drawn away. Ye fools - כסילים kesilim, ye stupid, stiffnecked, senseless people. That preaching is never likely to do much good, that is not pointed; specifying and describing vices, and charging them home on the consciences of transgressors. Where this is not done, the congregation is unconcerned; no man supposes he has any thing to do in the business, especially if the preacher takes care to tell them, "These were the crimes of Jews, Romans, Greeks, of the people at Corinth, Philippi, Thessalonica, Laodicea, and of heathens in general; but I hope better things of you, who have been born in a Christian land, and baptized in the Christian faith." Thus he arms their consciences in double brass against the good effects of his own teaching.
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Proverbs 8:5
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- Jews
- Romans
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- Corinth
- Philippi
- Thessalonica
- Laodicea
Exposition: Proverbs 8:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:6
Hebrew
שִׁמְעוּ כִּֽי־נְגִידִים אֲדַבֵּר וּמִפְתַּח שְׂפָתַי מֵישָׁרִֽים׃shime'v-khiy-negiydiym-'adaver-vmifetach-shefatay-meyshariym
KJV: Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
AKJV: Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
ASV: Hear, for I will speak excellent things;
YLT: Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips is uprightness.
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Proverbs 8:6
Verse 6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things - נגידים negidim, things which are preeminent, and manifestly superior to all others. The teaching is not trifling, though addressed to triflers. The opening of my lips shall be right things - מישרים meysharim, things which are calculated to correct your false notions, and set straight your crooked ways. Hence she declares,
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- Hear
Exposition: Proverbs 8:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:7
Hebrew
כִּֽי־אֱמֶת יֶהְגֶּה חִכִּי וְתוֹעֲבַת שְׂפָתַי רֶֽשַׁע׃khiy-'emet-yehegeh-chikhiy-vetvo'avat-shefatay-resha'
KJV: For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
AKJV: For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
ASV: For my mouth shall utter truth;
YLT: For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness.
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Proverbs 8:7
Verse 7 My mouth shall speak truth - Truth, without falsity, or any mixture of error, shall be the whole matter of my discourse.
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Proverbs 8:7
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- Truth
Exposition: Proverbs 8:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:8
Hebrew
בְּצֶדֶק כָּל־אִמְרֵי־פִי אֵין בָּהֶם נִפְתָּל וְעִקֵּֽשׁ׃vetzedeq-khal-'imerey-fiy-'eyn-vahem-nifetal-ve'iqesh
KJV: All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
AKJV: All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing fraudulent or perverse in them.
ASV: All the words of my mouth are in righteousness;
YLT: In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.
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Proverbs 8:8
Verse 8 All the words - are in righteousness - בצדק betsedek, in justice and equity, testifying what man owes to his God, to his neighbor, and to himself; giving to each his due. This is the true import of צדק tsadak. There is nothing froward - נפתל niphtal, tortuous, involved, or difficult. Or perverse - עקש ikkesh, distorted, leading to obstinacy. On the contrary,
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:9
Hebrew
כֻּלָּם נְכֹחִים לַמֵּבִין וִֽישָׁרִים לְמֹצְאֵי דָֽעַת׃khulam-nekhochiym-lameviyn-viyshariym-lemotze'ey-da'at
KJV: They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
AKJV: They are all plain to him that understands, and right to them that find knowledge.
ASV: They are all plain to him that understandeth,
YLT: All of them are plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.
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Proverbs 8:9
Verse 9 They are all plain - נכחים nechochim, straight forward, over against every man, level to every capacity. This is true of all that concerns the salvation of the soul. To them that find knowledge - When a man gets the knowledge of himself, then he sees all the threatenings of God to be right. When he obtains the knowledge of God in Christ, then he finds that all the promises of God are right - yea and amen.
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:10
Hebrew
קְחֽוּ־מוּסָרִי וְאַל־כָּסֶף וְדַעַת מֵחָרוּץ נִבְחָֽר׃qechv-mvsariy-ve'al-khasef-veda'at-mecharvtz-nivechar
KJV: Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
AKJV: Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
ASV: Receive my instruction, and not silver;
YLT: Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold.
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Proverbs 8:10
Proverbs 8:10 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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- Proverbs 8:10
Exposition: Proverbs 8:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:11
Hebrew
כִּֽי־טוֹבָה חָכְמָה מִפְּנִינִים וְכָל־חֲפָצִים לֹא יִֽשְׁווּ־בָֽהּ׃khiy-tvovah-chakhemah-mifeniyniym-vekhal-chafatziym-lo'-yishevv-vah
KJV: For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
AKJV: For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
ASV: For wisdom is better than rubies;
YLT: For better is wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.
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Proverbs 8:11
Proverbs 8:11 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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- Proverbs 8:11
Exposition: Proverbs 8:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:12
Hebrew
אֲֽנִי־חָכְמָה שָׁכַנְתִּי עָרְמָה וְדַעַת מְזִמּוֹת אֶמְצָֽא׃'aniy-chakhemah-shakhanetiy-'aremah-veda'at-mezimvot-'emetza'
KJV: I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
AKJV: I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
ASV: I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling,
YLT: I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out.
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Verse 12 I wisdom dwell with prudence - Prudence is defined, wisdom applied to practice; so wherever true wisdom is, it will lead to action, and its activity will be always in reference to the accomplishment of the best ends by the use of the most appropriate means. Hence comes what is here called knowledge of witty inventions, דעת מזמות אמצא daath mezimmoth emtsa, "I have found out knowledge and contrivance." The farther wisdom proceeds in man, the more practical knowledge it gains; and finding out the nature and properties of things, and the general course of providence, it can contrive by new combinations to produce new results.
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:13
Hebrew
יִֽרְאַת יְהוָה שְֽׂנֹאת רָע גֵּאָה וְגָאוֹן ׀ וְדֶרֶךְ רָע וּפִי תַהְפֻּכוֹת שָׂנֵֽאתִי׃yire'at-yehvah-sheno't-ra'-ge'ah-vega'von- -vederekhe-ra'-vfiy-tahefukhvot-shane'tiy
KJV: The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
AKJV: The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the fraudulent mouth, do I hate.
ASV: The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil:
YLT: The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
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Verse 13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil - As it is impossible to hate evil without loving good; and as hatred to evil will lead a man to abandon the evil way; and love to goodness will lead him to do what is right in the sight of God, under the influence of that Spirit which has given the hatred to evil, and inspired the love of goodness: hence this implies the sum and substance of true religion, which is here termed the fear of the Lord.
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:14
Hebrew
לִֽי־עֵצָה וְתוּשִׁיָּה אֲנִי בִינָה לִי גְבוּרָֽה׃liy-'etzah-vetvshiyah-'aniy-viynah-liy-gevvrah
KJV: Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
AKJV: Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
ASV: Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge:
YLT: Mine is counsel and substance, I am understanding, I have might.
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Verse 14 Counsel is mine - Direction how to act in all circumstances and on all occasions must come from wisdom: the foolish man can give no counsel, cannot show another how he is to act in the various changes and chances of life. The wise man alone can give this counsel; and he can give it only as continually receiving instruction from God: for this Divine wisdom can say, תושיה Tushiyah, substance, reality, essence, all belong to me: I am the Fountain whence all are derived. Man may be wise, and good, and prudent, and ingenious; but these he derives from me, and they are dependently in him. But in me all these are independently and essentially inherent. And sound wisdom - See above. This is a totally false translation: תושיה tushiyah means essence, substance, reality; the source and substance of good. How ridiculous the support derived by certain authors from this translation in behalf of their system! See the writers on and quoters of Proverbs 8 (note). I have strength - Speaking still of wisdom as communicating rays of its light to man, it enables him to bring every thing to his aid; to construct machines by which one man can do the work of hundreds. From it comes all mathematical learning, all mechanical knowledge; from it originally came the inclined plane, the wedge, the screw, the pulley, in all its multiplications; and the lever, in all its combinations and varieties, came from this wisdom. And as all these can produce prodigies of power, far surpassing all kinds of animal energy, and all the effects of the utmost efforts of muscular force; hence the maxim of Lord Bacon, "Knowledge is power," built on the maxim of the tushiyah itself; לי גבורה li geburah, Mine Is Strength.
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:15
Hebrew
בִּי מְלָכִים יִמְלֹכוּ וְרוֹזְנִים יְחֹקְקוּ צֶֽדֶק׃viy-melakhiym-yimelokhv-vervozeniym-yechoqeqv-tzedeq
KJV: By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
AKJV: By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
ASV: By me kings reign,
YLT: By me kings reign, and princes decree righteousness,
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Verse 15 By me kings reign - Every wise and prudent king is such through the influence of Divine wisdom. And just laws and their righteous administration come from this source. In this and the following verse five degrees of civil power and authority are mentioned. 1. מלכים melachim, Kings. 2. רזנים rozenim, Consuls. 3. שרים sarim, Princes, Chiefs of the people. 4. נדיבים nedibim, Nobles. And 5. שפטים shophetim, Judges or Civil Magistrates\\ All orders of government are from God. Instead of שפטי ארץ shophetey arets,"judges of the earth," שפטי צרק shophetey tsedek, "righteous judges," or "judges of righteousness," is the reading of one hundred and sixty-two of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., both in the text and in the margin, and of several ancient editions. And this is the reading of the Vulgate, the Chaldee, and the Syriac, and should undoubtedly supersede the other.
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- Consuls
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:16
Hebrew
בִּי שָׂרִים יָשֹׂרוּ וּנְדִיבִים כָּל־שֹׁפְטֵי צֶֽדֶק׃viy-shariym-yashorv-vnediyviym-khal-shofetey-tzedeq
KJV: By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
AKJV: By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
ASV: By me princes rule,
YLT: By me do chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of the earth.
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Proverbs 8:16 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:17
Hebrew
אֲנִי אהביה אֹהֲבַי אֵהָב וּמְשַׁחֲרַי יִמְצָאֻֽנְנִי׃'aniy-'hvyh-'ohavay-'ehav-vmeshacharay-yimetza'uneniy
KJV: I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
AKJV: I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
ASV: I love them that love me;
YLT: I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me.
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Verse 17 I love them that love me - Wisdom shows itself; teaches man the knowledge of himself; shows him also the will of God concerning him; manifests the snares and dangers of life, the allurements and unsatisfactory nature of all sensual and sinful pleasures, the blessedness of true religion, and the solid happiness which an upright soul derives from the peace and approbation of its Maker. If, then, the heart embraces this wisdom, follows this Divine teaching, and gives itself to God, his love will be shed abroad in it by the influence of the Holy Spirit. Thus we love God because he hath first loved us and the more we love him, the more we shall feel of his love, which will enable us to love him yet more and more; and thus we may go on increasing to eternity. Blessed be God! And those that seek me early shall find me - Not merely betimes in the morning, though he who does so shall find it greatly to his advantage; (see on Psa 4:1-8 (note)); but early in life - in youth, and as near as possible to the first dawn of reason. To the young this gracious promise is particularly made: if they seek, they shall find. Others, who are old, may seek and find; but never to such advantage as they would have done, had they sought early. Youth is the time of advantage in every respect: it is the time of learning, the time of discipline; the time of improvement, the time of acquiring useful, solid, and gracious habits. As the first-fruits always belong to God, it is God's time; the time in which he is peculiarly gracious; and in which, to sincere youthful seekers, he pours out his benefits with great profusion. "They that seek me early shall find me." Hear, ye young, and ye little ones! God offers himself now to you, with all his treasures of grace and glory. Thank him for his ineffable mercy, and embrace it without delay.
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- If
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- Hear
Exposition: Proverbs 8:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:18
Hebrew
עֹֽשֶׁר־וְכָבוֹד אִתִּי הוֹן עָתֵק וּצְדָקָֽה׃'osher-vekhavvod-'itiy-hvon-'ateq-vtzedaqah
KJV: Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
AKJV: Riches and honor are with me; yes, durable riches and righteousness.
ASV: Riches and honor are with me;
YLT: Wealth and honour are with me, Lasting substance and righteousness.
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Verse 18 Riches and honor are with me - Often the wise, prudent, and discreet man arrives literally to riches and honor; but this is not always the case. But there are other riches of which he never fails; and these seem to be what Solomon has particularly in view, durable riches and righteousness; the treasure deposited by God in earthen vessels.
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:19
Hebrew
טוֹב פִּרְיִי מֵחָרוּץ וּמִפָּז וּתְבוּאָתִי מִכֶּסֶף נִבְחָֽר׃tvov-fireyiy-mecharvtz-vmifaz-vtevv'atiy-mikhesef-nivechar
KJV: My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
AKJV: My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
ASV: My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold;
YLT: Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.
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Proverbs 8:19 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:20
Hebrew
בְּאֹֽרַח־צְדָקָה אֲהַלֵּך בְּתוֹךְ נְתִיבוֹת מִשְׁפָּֽט׃ve'orach-tzedaqah-'ahalekh-vetvokhe-netiyvvot-mishefat
KJV: I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
AKJV: I lead in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of judgment:
ASV: I walk in the way of righteousness,
YLT: In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,
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Verse 20 I lead in the way of righteousness - Nothing but the teaching that comes from God by his word and Spirit can do this.
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:21
Hebrew
לְהַנְחִיל אֹהֲבַי ׀ יֵשׁ וְאֹצְרֹתֵיהֶם אֲמַלֵּֽא׃lehanechiyl-'ohavay- -yesh-ve'otzeroteyhem-'amale'
KJV: That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
AKJV: That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
ASV: That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance,
YLT: To cause my lovers to inherit substance, Yea, their treasures I fill.
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Proverbs 8:21 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:22
Hebrew
יְֽהוָה קָנָנִי רֵאשִׁית דַּרְכּוֹ קֶדֶם מִפְעָלָיו מֵאָֽז׃yehvah-qananiy-re'shiyt-darekhvo-qedem-mife'alayv-me'az
KJV: The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
AKJV: The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
ASV: Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way,
YLT: Jehovah possessed me--the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.
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Verse 22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way - Wisdom is not acquired by the Divine Being; man, and even angels, learn it by slow and progressive degrees; but in God it is as eternally inherent as any other essential attribute of his nature. The Targum makes this wisdom a creature, by thus translating the passage: אלהא בראני בריש בריתיה Elaha barani bereish biriteiah, "God created me in the beginning of his creatures." The Syriac is the same. This is as absurd and heretical as some modern glosses on the same passage.
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:22 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:23
Hebrew
מֵעוֹלָם נִסַּכְתִּי מֵרֹאשׁ מִקַּדְמֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃me'volam-nisakhetiy-mero'sh-miqademey-'aretz
KJV: I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
AKJV: I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
ASV: I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
YLT: From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.
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Verse 23 I was set up from everlasting - נסכתי nissachti, "I was diffused or poured out," from נסך nasach, "to diffuse, pour abroad, as a spirit or disposition," Isa 29:10. See Parkhurst. Or from סך sach, "to cover, overspread, smear over, as with oil;" to be anointed king. Hence some have translated it, principatum habui, I had the principality, or was a ruler, governor, and director, from eternity. All the schemes, plans, and circumstances, relative to creation, government, providence, and to all being, material, animal, and intellectual, were conceived in the Divine mind, by the Divine wisdom, from eternity, or ever the earth was. There was no fortuitous creation, no jumbling concourse of original atoms, that entered into the composition of created beings; all was the effect of the plans before conceived, laid down, and at last acted upon by God's eternal wisdom.
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- Isa 29:10
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- Ovid
- See Parkhurst
Exposition: Proverbs 8:23 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:24
Hebrew
בְּאֵין־תְּהֹמוֹת חוֹלָלְתִּי בְּאֵין מַעְיָנוֹת נִכְבַּדֵּי־מָֽיִם׃ve'eyn-tehomvot-chvolaletiy-ve'eyn-ma'eyanvot-nikhevadey-mayim
KJV: When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
AKJV: When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
ASV: When there were no depths, I was brought forth,
YLT: In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy with waters,
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Verse 24 When there were no depths - תהמות tehomoth, before the original chaotic mass was formed. See Gen 1:2. I was brought forth - חוללתי cholalti, "I was produced as by laboring throes." Mr. Parkhurst thinks that the heathen poets derived their idea of Minerva's (wisdom's) being born of Jupiter's brain, from some such high poetic personification as that in the text.
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Proverbs 8:24
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Gen 1:2
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- Mr
Exposition: Proverbs 8:24 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:25
Hebrew
בְּטֶרֶם הָרִים הָטְבָּעוּ לִפְנֵי גְבָעוֹת חוֹלָֽלְתִּי׃veterem-hariym-hateva'v-lifeney-geva'vot-chvolaletiy
KJV: Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
AKJV: Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
ASV: Before the mountains were settled,
YLT: Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.
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Proverbs 8:25
Proverbs 8:25 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Proverbs 8:25
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- Proverbs 8:25
Exposition: Proverbs 8:25 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:26
Hebrew
עַד־לֹא עָשָׂה אֶרֶץ וְחוּצוֹת וְרֹאשׁ עָפְרוֹת תֵּבֵֽל׃'ad-lo'-'ashah-'eretz-vechvtzvot-vero'sh-'afervot-tevel
KJV: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
AKJV: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
ASV: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,
YLT: While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.
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Proverbs 8:26
Verse 26 The highest part of the dust of the world - ראש עפרות תבל rosh aphroth tebel, "the first particle of matter." The prima materia, the primitive atom. All these verses (verses 3-29) are a periphrasis for I existed before creation, consequently before time was. I dwelt in God as a principle which might be communicated in its influences to intellectual beings when formed.
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Proverbs 8:26
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:26 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:27
Hebrew
בַּהֲכִינוֹ שָׁמַיִם שָׁם אָנִי בְּחוּקוֹ חוּג עַל־פְּנֵי תְהֽוֹם׃vahakhiynvo-shamayim-sham-'aniy-vechvqvo-chvg-'al-feney-tehvom
KJV: When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
AKJV: When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass on the face of the depth:
ASV: When he established the heavens, I was there:
YLT: In His preparing the heavens I am there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,
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Verse 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there - For there is no part of the creation of God in which wisdom, skill, contrivance, are more manifest, than in the construction of the visible heavens. When he set a compass upon the face of the depth - Does not this refer to the establishment of the law of gravitation? by which all the particles of matter, tending to a common center, would produce in all bodies the orbicular form, which we see them have; so that even the waters are not only retained within their boundaries, but are subjected to the circular form, in their great aggregate of seas, as other parts of matter are. This is called here making a compass, בחקו חוג bechukko chug, sweeping a circle; and even this on the face of the deep, to bring the chaotic mass into form, regularity, and order.
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Proverbs 8:27
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:27 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:28
Hebrew
בְּאַמְּצוֹ שְׁחָקִים מִמָּעַל בַּעֲזוֹז עִינוֹת תְּהוֹם׃ve'ametzvo-shechaqiym-mima'al-va'azvoz-'iynvot-tehvom
KJV: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
AKJV: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
ASV: When he made firm the skies above,
YLT: In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,
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Verse 28 The clouds above - שחקים shechakim, "the ethereal regions," taking in the whole of the atmosphere, with all its meteors, clouds, vapours, etc.
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Proverbs 8:28
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:28 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:29
Hebrew
בְּשׂוּמוֹ לַיָּם ׀ חֻקּוֹ וּמַיִם לֹא יַֽעַבְרוּ־פִיו בְּחוּקוֹ מוֹסְדֵי אָֽרֶץ׃veshvmvo-layam- -chuqvo-vmayim-lo'-ya'averv-fiyv-vechvqvo-mvosedey-'aretz
KJV: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
AKJV: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
ASV: When he gave to the sea its bound,
YLT: In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,
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Verse 29 When he gave to the sea his decree - When he assigned its limits, adjusted its saltness, and proportioned the extent of the surface to the quantity of vapors to be raised from it, for the irrigation of the terrene surface. The foundations of the earth - Those irreversible laws by which all its motions are governed; its annual and diurnal rotation, and particularly its centrifugal and centripetal forces; by the former of which it has its annual motion round the sun like all other planets; and by the latter all its particles are prevented from flying off, notwithstanding the great velocity of its motion round its own axis, which causes one thousand and forty-two miles of its equator to pass under any given point in the heavens in the course of a single hour! These are, properly speaking, the foundations of the earth; the principles on which it is constructed, and the laws by which it is governed.
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Proverbs 8:29
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:29 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:30
Hebrew
וָֽאֶהְיֶה אֶצְלוֹ אָמוֹן וָֽאֶהְיֶה שַׁעֲשֻׁעִים יוֹם ׀ יוֹם מְשַׂחֶקֶת לְפָנָיו בְּכָל־עֵֽת׃va'eheyeh-'etzelvo-'amvon-va'eheyeh-sha'ashu'iym-yvom- -yvom-meshacheqet-lefanayv-vekhal-'et
KJV: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
AKJV: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
ASV: Then I was by him, asa master workman;
YLT: Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight--day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,
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Proverbs 8:30
Verse 30 Then I was with him, as one brought up - אמון amon, a nursling, a darling child. Wisdom continues its parable, says Calmet; and represents itself as a new-born child which is ever near its parent, and takes pleasure to see him act, and to sport in his presence. This is poetical and highly figurative; and they who think they find the deity of Jesus Christ in these metaphors should be very cautious how they apply such terms as these; so that while they are endeavoring to defend the truth, they may do nothing against the truth, in which most of them unhappily fail. Rejoicing always before him - All the images in this verse are borrowed from the state and circumstances of a darling, affectionate, playful child; as any one will be convinced who examines the Hebrew text.
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Proverbs 8:30
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Jesus
- Calmet
Exposition: Proverbs 8:30 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:31
Hebrew
מְשַׂחֶקֶת בְּתֵבֵל אַרְצוֹ וְשַׁעֲשֻׁעַי אֶת־בְּנֵי אָדָֽם׃meshacheqet-vetevel-'aretzvo-vesha'ashu'ay-'et-veney-'adam
KJV: Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
AKJV: Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
ASV: Rejoicing in his habitable earth;
YLT: Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights are with the sons of men.
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Proverbs 8:31
Verse 31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth - There God displays especially his wisdom in ordering and directing human beings, and in providing for their wants. The wisdom of God is in an especial manner manifested in his providence. My delights were with the sons of men - This Divine wisdom, as it delighted in the creation of man, so it continues to delight in his instruction. Hence it is represented as offering its lessons of instruction continually, and using every means and opportunity to call men from folly and vice to sound knowledge, holiness, and happiness. It is to man that God especially gives wisdom; and he has it in the form of reason beyond all other creatures; therefore it is said, "My delights are with the sons of men;" to them I open my choicest treasures. They alone are capable of sapience, intelligence, and discursive reason.
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Proverbs 8:31
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- Ovid
Exposition: Proverbs 8:31 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:32
Hebrew
וְעַתָּה בָנִים שִׁמְעוּ־לִי וְאַשְׁרֵי דְּרָכַי יִשְׁמֹֽרוּ׃ve'atah-vaniym-shime'v-liy-ve'asherey-derakhay-yishemorv
KJV: Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
AKJV: Now therefore listen to me, O you children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
ASV: Now therefore, mysons, hearken unto me;
YLT: And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways.
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Proverbs 8:32
Verse 32 Now therefore - Since I delight so much in conveying instruction; since I have the happiness of the children of Adam so much at heart, hearken unto me; and this is for your own interest, for blessed are they who keep my ways.
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Proverbs 8:32
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:32 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:33
Hebrew
שִׁמְעוּ מוּסָר וַחֲכָמוּ וְאַל־תִּפְרָֽעוּ׃shime'v-mvsar-vachakhamv-ve'al-tifera'v
KJV: Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
AKJV: Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
ASV: Hear instruction, and be wise,
YLT: Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 8:33Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 8:33
Proverbs 8:33 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Proverbs 8:33
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Proverbs 8:33
Exposition: Proverbs 8:33 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:34
Hebrew
אַשְֽׁרֵי אָדָם שֹׁמֵעַֽ לִי לִשְׁקֹד עַל־דַּלְתֹתַי יוֹם ׀ יוֹם לִשְׁמֹר מְזוּזֹת פְּתָחָֽי׃'asherey-'adam-shome'a-liy-lisheqod-'al-daletotay-yvom- -yvom-lishemor-mezvzot-fetachay
KJV: Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
AKJV: Blessed is the man that hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
ASV: Blessed is the man that heareth me,
YLT: O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance.
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Verse 34 Watching daily at my gates - Wisdom is represented as having a school for the instruction of men; and seems to point out some of the most forward of her scholars coming, through their intense desire to learn, even before the gates were opened, and waiting there for admission, that they might hear every word that was uttered, and not lose one accent of the heavenly teaching. Blessed are such.
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Proverbs 8:34
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Exposition: Proverbs 8:34 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:35
Hebrew
כִּי מֹצְאִי מצאי מָצָא חַיִּים וַיָּפֶק רָצוֹן מֵיְהוָֽה׃khiy-motze'iy-mtz'y-matza'-chayiym-vayafeq-ratzvon-meyehvah
KJV: For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
AKJV: For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.
ASV: For whoso findeth me findeth life,
YLT: For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
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Verse 35 Whoso findeth me - The wisdom that comes from God, teaching to avoid evil and cleave to that which is good; findeth life - gets that knowledge which qualifies him to answer the purposes for which he was made; for he is quickened with Christ, and made a partaker of the Divine life. Christ dwells in his heart by faith; he lives a new life, for Christ liveth in him; the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus makes him free from the law of sin and death. And shall obtain favor of the Lord. The more he walks after the Divine counsel, the more he obtains of the Divine image; and the more he resembles his Maker, the more he partakes of the Divine favor.
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Proverbs 8:35
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Jesus
- Christ
- Lord
- Maker
Exposition: Proverbs 8:35 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 8:36
Hebrew
וְֽחֹטְאִי חֹמֵס נַפְשׁוֹ כָּל־מְשַׂנְאַי אָהֲבוּ מָֽוֶת׃vechote'iy-chomes-nafeshvo-khal-meshane'ay-'ahavv-mavet
KJV: But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
AKJV: But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
ASV: But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul:
YLT: And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!
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Verse 36 Wrongeth his own soul - It is not Satan, it is not sin, properly speaking, that hurts him; it is himself. If he received the teaching of God, sin would have no dominion over him; if he resisted the devil, the devil would flee from him. Love death - They do it in effect, if not in fact, for as they love sin, that leads to death, so they may be justly said to love death, the wages of sin. He that works in this case, works for wages; and he must love the wages, seeing he labors so hard in the work. I Have gone through this fine chapter, and given the best exposition of it in my power. I have also, as well as others, weighed every word, and closely examined their radical import, their connection among themselves, and the connection of the subject of the chapter with what has gone before, and with what follows after; and I cannot come, conscientiously, to any other interpretation than that which I have given. I am thoroughly satisfied that it speaks not one word either about the Divine or human nature of Christ, much less of any eternal filiation of his Divinity. And I am fully persuaded, had there not been a preconceived creed, no soul of man, by fair criticism, would have ever found out that fond opinion of the eternal sonship of the Divine nature, which so many commentators persuade us they find here. That it has been thus applied in early apes, as well as in modern times, I am sufficiently aware; and that many other portions of the Divine records have been appealed to, in order to support a particular opinion, and many that were false in themselves, must be known to those who are acquainted with the fathers. But many quote them who know nothing of them. As to the fathers in general, they were not all agreed on this subject, some supposing Christ, others the Holy Spirit, was meant in this chapter. But of these we may safely state, that there is not a truth in the most orthodox creed, that cannot be proved by their authority, nor a heresy that has disgraced the Romish Church, that may not challenge them as its abettors. In points of doctrine, their authority is, with me, nothing. The Word of God alone contains my creed. On a number of points I can go to the Greek and Latin fathers of the Church, to know what they believed, and what the people of their respective communions believed; but after all this I must return to God's word, to know what he would have Me to believe. No part of a Protestant creed stands on the decision of fathers and councils. By appealing to the Bible alone, as the only rule for the faith and practice of Christians, they confounded and defeated their papistical adversaries, who could not prove their doctrines but by fathers and councils. Hence their peculiar doctrines stand in their ultimate proof upon These; and those of Protestantism on the Bible. Some late writers upon this subject, whose names I spare, have presumed much on what they have said on this subject; but before any man, who seeks for sober truth, will receive any of their conclusions, he will naturally look whether their premises be sound, or whether from sound principles they have drawn legitimate conclusions. They say this chapter is a sufficient foundation to build their doctrine on. I say it is no foundation at all; that it never has been proved, and never can be proved, that it speaks at all of the doctrine in question. It has nothing to do with it. On this conviction of mine, their proofs drawn from this chapter must go with me for nothing. I have been even shocked with reading over some things that have been lately written on the subject. I have said in my heart, They have taken away my Eternal Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. I cannot believe their doctrine; I never did; I hope I never shall. I believe in the holy Trinity; in three persons in the Godhead, of which none is before or after another. I believe Jehovah, Jesus, the Holy Ghost to be one infinite, eternal Godhead, subsisting ineffably in three persons. I believe Jesus the Christ to be, as to his Divine nature, as unoriginated and eternal as Jehovah himself; and with the Holy Ghost to be one infinite Godhead, neither person being created, begotten, nor proceeding, more than another: as to its essence, but one Trinity, in an infinite, eternal and inseparable Unity. And this Triune God is the object of my faith, my adoration, and my confidence. But I believe not in an eternal sonship or generation of the Divine nature of Jesus Christ. Here I have long stood, here I now stand, and here I trust to stand in the hour of death, in the day of judgment, and to all eternity. Taking the Scriptures in general, I find a plurality in the Divine nature; taking the grand part mentioned, Mat 3:16, Mat 3:17, I find that plurality restrained to a trinity, in the most unequivocal and evident manner: Jesus, who was baptized in Jordan; the Holy Ghost, who descended upon him who was baptized; and the Father, manifested by the Voice from heaven that said, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." And how that person called Jesus the Christ, in whom dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, could be called the Son of God, I have shown in my note on Luk 1:35. Some writers, in their defense of the doctrine above, which I venture to say I do not believe, have made reflections, in real or pretended pity, on the belief of their Trinitarian brethren, which have very little to do with candor: viz., "How the supporters of this hypothesis can avoid either the error of Tritheism on the one hand, or Sabellianism on the other, is difficult to conceive." Now, the supporters of the doctrine of the underived and unbegotten eternity of Christ's Divine nature might as well say of them: How the supporters of the eternal sonship of Christ can avoid the error of Arianism on the one hand, and Arianism on the other, it is difficult to conceive. But I would not say so; for though I know Arians who hold that doctrine, and express their belief nearly in the same words; yet I know many most conscientious Trinitarians who hold the doctrine of the eternal sonship, and yet believe in the proper deity, or eternal godhead, of Jesus Christ. After all, as a very wise and excellent man lately said: "While we have every reason to be satisfied of the soundness of each other's faith, we must allow each to explain his own sentiments in his own words: here, in the words used in explanation, a little latitude may be safely allowed." To this correct sentiment I only add: - Scimus; et hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim. - Horace. "I grant it; and the license give and take." I have passed the waters of strife, and do not wish to recross them: the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. I will have nothing to do with ill-tempered, abusive men; I wish them more light and better manners. And while I am on this subject, let me add one thing, which I am sure will not please all the generation of his people; and it is this: that Jesus Christ, having taken upon him human nature, which was afterwards crucified, and expired upon the cross, did by those acts make a full, perfect, and sufficient offering, sacrifice, and atonement for the sin of the whole world. That he died, paid down the redemption price, for every soul of man, that was ever born into the world, and shall ever be born into it. That all who lay hold on the hope set before them shall be saved; (and all may thus lay hold); and none shall perish but those who would not come to Christ that they might have life. And that men perish, not because they were not redeemed, but because they would not accept of the redemption. To conclude on this subject, it will be necessary to refer the reader to the remarkable opposition that subsists between this and the preceding chapter. There, the prostitute is represented as going out into the streets to seek her prey; and the alluring words of carnal wisdom to excite the animal appetite to sinful gratification, which she uses: here, heavenly wisdom is represented as going out into the streets, to the high places, the gates of the city, to counteract her designs, and lead back the simple to God and truth. These personifications were frequent among the Jews. In the Book of Ecclesiasticus we find a similar personification, and expressed in almost similar terms; and surely none will suppose that the writer of that Apocryphal book had either the Christian doctrine of the Trinity or the sonship of Christ in view. I will give a few passages: - "Wisdom shall glory in the midst of her people; in the congregation of the Most High shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power. I came out of the mouth of the Most High, and covered the earth as a cloud. I dwelt in the high places; I alone compassed the circuit of the heaven, and walked in the bottom of the deep, in the waves of the sea, and in all the earth. He created me from the beginning, before the world; and I shall never fail. I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope. I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children which are named of him. Come unto me, and fill yourselves with my fruits. I also came out as a brook from a river, and a conduit into a garden," etc., etc., Ecclesiasticus 24:1, etc. This kind of personification of wisdom we have had in the preceding chapters; and in the following chapter we shall find the figure still kept up.
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Proverbs 8:36
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- Mat 3:16
- Mat 3:17
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- Jesus
- Satan
- Christ
- Divinity
- Holy Spirit
- Romish Church
- Church
- Christians
- These
- Bible
- Eternal Lord
- Trinity
- Godhead
- Jehovah
- Unity
- Jesus Christ
- Jordan
- Holy Ghost
- Father
- Son
- Now
- Scimus
- Horace
- There
- Jews
- Most High
Exposition: Proverbs 8:36 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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- Proverbs 8:1
- Proverbs 8:2
- Proverbs 8:3
- Proverbs 8:4
- Proverbs 8:5
- Proverbs 8:6
- Proverbs 8:7
- Proverbs 8:8
- Proverbs 8:9
- Proverbs 8:10
- Proverbs 8:11
- Proverbs 8:12
- Proverbs 8:13
- Proverbs 8:14
- Proverbs 8:15
- Proverbs 8:16
- Proverbs 8:17
- Proverbs 8:18
- Proverbs 8:19
- Proverbs 8:20
- Proverbs 8:21
- Proverbs 8:22
- Isa 29:10
- Proverbs 8:23
- Gen 1:2
- Proverbs 8:24
- Proverbs 8:25
- Proverbs 8:26
- Proverbs 8:27
- Proverbs 8:28
- Proverbs 8:29
- Proverbs 8:30
- Proverbs 8:31
- Proverbs 8:32
- Proverbs 8:33
- Proverbs 8:34
- Proverbs 8:35
- Mat 3:16
- Mat 3:17
- Proverbs 8:36
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- Jesus
- Most High
- Christ
- Jesus Christ
- Adam
- Jews
- Romans
- Greeks
- Corinth
- Philippi
- Thessalonica
- Laodicea
- Hear
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- Ovid
- Lord
- Ray
- Tushiyah
- Lord Bacon
- Mine Is Strength
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- Kings
- Consuls
- Princes
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- Chaldee
- Syriac
- Maker
- If
- Holy Spirit
- Targum
- Divine Being
- See Parkhurst
- Mr
- Calmet
- Satan
- Divinity
- Romish Church
- Church
- Christians
- These
- Bible
- Eternal Lord
- Trinity
- Godhead
- Jehovah
- Unity
- Jordan
- Holy Ghost
- Father
- Son
- Now
- Scimus
- Horace
- There
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Proverbs 8:1
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