Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Proverbs 8:7
For My mouth shall speak truth, literally, "My palate meditateth truth," reflecting upon it, considering it always, and wickedness is an abomination to My lips.
For My mouth shall speak truth, literally, "My palate meditateth truth," reflecting upon it, considering it always, and wickedness is an abomination to My lips.
Verse Proverbs 8:7. _MY MOUTH SHALL SPEAK TRUTH_] TRUTH, without _falsity_, or any mixture of _error_, shall be the whole matter of my discourse....
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...
WICKEDNESS. lawlessness. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44....
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,...
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. FOR MY MOUTH (HEBREW, PALATE) SHALL SPEAK TRUTH; AND WICKEDNESS (IS) AN ABOMINATION TO MY LIPS. "Speak" - literally, 'me...
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....
The woman called Wisdom speaks good words. Her words are always true (verse 6). They are fair (verse 7). She does not speak wrong words (verse 7). Everything that she says is perfect (verse 9). God i...
כִּֽי ־אֱ֭מֶת יֶהְגֶּ֣ה חִכִּ֑י וְ תֹועֲבַ֖ת...
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 MY MOUTH SHALL SPEAK TRUTH,.... And nothing but the truth; and nothing more or less can be spoken by Wisdom, or Christ, who is truth itself; nothing else can come out of his mouth, or drop from hi...
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips. Ver. 7. _For my month shall speak truth._] Heb., Shall meditate truth; _i.e., _ I will neither speak falsely nor rashly,...
_For my mouth shall speak truth_ Hebrew, יהגה, _shall meditate_, that is, shall speak, not rashly and hastily, but what I have well considered and digested. _Wickedness is an abomination_, &c. I hate...
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...
AN ABOMINATION TO MY LIPS: _ Heb._ the abomination of my lips...
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...
SHALL SPEAK, Heb. _shall meditate_, i.e. shall speak not rashly and hastily, but what I have well considered and digested. IS AN ABOMINATION TO MY LIPS: I hate to speak it; therefore you may be assure...
Proverbs 8:7 mouth H2441 speak H1897 (H8799) truth H571 Wickedness H7562 abomination H8441 lips H8193 my mouth -...
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 my mouth shall speak truth._ THE DOCTRINES OF RELIGION HAVE THEIR EVIDENCE IN THEMSELVES I. Confirm and illustrate this proposition. 1. Those things which religion requires of us are such as Re...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:6 Wisdom describes the character of her speech (NOBLE THINGS, RIGHT, RIGHTEOUS, NOTHING TWISTED OR CROOKED) in contras
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 8:5. WISDOM. This is a different word from the one used in Proverbs 8:1, and may be translated “subtilty,” or “prudence,” and though it is here used in a good sense, may, wh...
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 36:4; John 1:17; John 14:6; John 17:17; John 18:37;...