Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Proverbs 8:8
All the words of My mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them, nothing twisted or distorted, such as might lead men astray.
All the words of My mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them, nothing twisted or distorted, such as might lead men astray.
Verse Proverbs 8:8. _ALL THE WORDS _- ARE _IN RIGHTEOUSNESS_] בצדק _betsedek_, in justice and equity, testifying what man _owes_ to his God, to his neighbour, and to himself; giving to each his _due_....
Words of the ideal Wisdom, which find their highest fulfillment in that of the Incarnate Word. Compare Luke 4:22; Matthew 11:19....
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...
WORDS. sayings. Hebrew. _imrah._ FROWARD. twisted, or crafty....
_in righteousness_ or, "_righteousness_," R.V. marg. _froward_ Rather, CROOKED, R.V.; σκολιόν, LXX....
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,...
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. ALL THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH (ARE) IN RIGHTEOUSNESS; (THERE IS) NOTHING FROWARD (LITERALLY, DISTORTED) OR...
8:8 tortuous (b-13) Or 'wily,' as Job 5:13 ; lit. 'twisted.'...
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...
FROWARD. — That is, _twisted,_ or _crooked. _...
בְּ צֶ֥דֶק כָּל ־אִמְרֵי ־פִ֑י אֵ֥ין בָּ֝הֶ֗ם
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...
ALL THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH [ARE] IN RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... Or "with righteousness" x; are connected with it, are agreeable to it; are righteous ones, consistent with righteousness, with the righteous natur...
All the words of my mouth [are] in righteousness; [there is] nothing froward or perverse in them. Ver. 8. _All the words._] The Rabbis have a saying, that there is a mountain of sense hanging upon ev...
_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...
FROWARD: _ Heb._ wreathed...
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...
ALL THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH; all my precepts, promises, threatenings, &c. NOTHING FROWARD OR PERVERSE IN THEM; not the least mixture of vanity, or error, or folly in them, as there is in the words of th...
Proverbs 8:8 words H561 mouth H6310 righteousness H6664 crooked H6617 (H8737) perverse H6141 All -...
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...
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...
Isaiah 45:23; Isaiah 63:1; John 7:46; Proverbs 8:13; Psalms 12:6...