Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Proverbs 8:11
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
For wisdom is better than rubies - (cf. notes, Proverbs 3:14.)
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
For wisdom is better than rubies - (cf. notes, Proverbs 3:14.)
Verse Proverbs 8:11. _WISDOM_ IS _BETTER THAN RUBIES_] See on Proverbs 3:15....
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The call and appeal of wisdom (Proverbs 8:1)_ 2. What wisdom is and what wisdom gives (Proverbs 8:12) 3. Wisdom; the Person, who He is (Proverbs 8:22) 4. The renewed appeal ...
PROVERBS 8. WISDOM SPEAKS IN HER OWN PERSON. This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a profoun...
BETTER. Note the seventeen occurrences of this rendering of Hebrew. _tob_ in Proverbs: Proverbs 3:14; Proverbs 8:11; Proverbs 8:19; Proverbs
_rubies_ See Proverbs 3:15, note. _to it_ Better, UNTO HER, R.V....
CHAPTER 8 TEXT Proverbs 8:1-11 1. Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice? 2. On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth; 3. Beside the gates,...
8:11 rubies, (e-6) As in chs. 3.15; 20.15; 31.10; Job 28:18 ; Lamentations 4:7 ....
WISDOM'S CRY Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she ass...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 V1 The woman, who is called Wisdom, calls out. The woman, who is called Intelligence, is shouting....
Money is not really valuable. Silver and gold are beautiful, but they cannot give a good life to you. Wisdom is valuable. Wisdom is better than money, silver or gold. The Bible is also better than th...
RUBIES. — See above on Proverbs 3:15....
כִּֽי ־טֹובָ֣ה חָ֭כְמָה מִ פְּנִינִ֑ים וְ כָל
CHAPTER 9 THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR "Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1 In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn. This chapter contains a lovely and living picture of...
“BETTER THAN GOLD” Proverbs 8:1-21 This chapter contains a bewitching picture of Wisdom as a noble matron. Were it not for this feminine touch, we might, suppose that the Preacher had become a Pr...
The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of t...
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 t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
FOR WISDOM [IS] BETTER THAN RUBIES,.... A sort of precious stones: or, "than precious stones" z in general; so the Targum and Septuagint, Arabic and Syriac versions; even than all of them, as the Vulg...
_For wisdom [is] better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it._ Ver. 11. _For wisdom is better than rubies._] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 3:15 _"_...
For wisdom is better than rubies, the finest coral jewelry, AND ALL THE THINGS THAT MAY BE DESIRED ARE NOT TO BE COMPARED TO IT. cf Proverbs 3:14. This entire section clearly speaks of the divine wisd...
OF THE MESSIAH, THE PERSONAL WISDOM. The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts....
To the writerProverbs 8:1 provides one of the clearest proofs that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not the only Scripture that proves this precious and wonderful...
1-11 The will of God is made known by the works of creation, and by the consciences of men, but more clearly by Moses and the prophets. The chief difficulty is to get men to attend to instruction. Yet...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Proverbs 8:11 wisdom H2451 better H2896 rubies H6443 desire H2656 compared H7737 (H8799) wisdom -...
2). WISDOM CALLS ON THE NAIVE AND ON FOOLS TO PAY HEED TO HER WORDS BECAUSE HER INSTRUCTION IS BOTH TRUE AND VALUABLE (PROVERBS 8:5). Wisdom's words come especially to the naive and to ‘fools' (compar...
CONTENTS: Praise of divine wisdom. Christ, the Wisdom of God, speaks to men. CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom (Christ). CONCLUSION: Right knowledge of the divine will concerning us is to be preferred above a...
Proverbs 8:1. _Doth not Wisdom cry?_ This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisd...
_For wisdom is better than rubies._ RUBIES This jewel is called a sardius in two places in the Bible. The name comes from the Latin “Ruber,” which means red, and this name is given to the ruby becau...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 8:11. RUBIES, “pearls.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH— Proverbs 8:10_ WISDOM BETTER THAN WEALTH I. WISDOM IS TO BE PREFERRED TO WEALTH BECAUSE IT BELONGS TO A HIGHER S...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 8:1 14. _Fourteenth admonitory discourse _concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1; and the exceeding grea...
In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of...
Job 28:15; Matthew 16:26; Philippians 3:8; Philippians 3:9;...