Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Proverbs 8:20
Keeping at an equal distance from both extremes, and from the very borders of them; which is called a putting away iniquity far from us, Job 22:23.
Keeping at an equal distance from both extremes, and from the very borders of them; which is called a putting away iniquity far from us, Job 22:23.
Verse Proverbs 8:20. _I LEAD IN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_] Nothing but the teaching that comes from God by his _word_ and _Spirit_ can do this....
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...
TEXT Proverbs 8:12-21 12. I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion. 13. The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the...
I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: I LEAD IN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS - Hebrew, 'I cause (my adherents) to walk in the way of righteousness:' not only to pe...
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....
I LEAD IN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. — Comp. Psalms 37:23; also a prayer for such guidance, Psalms 119:33; Psalms 143:8; and a promise of it Isaiah
בְּ אֹֽרַח ־צְדָקָ֥ה אֲהַלֵּ֑ך בְּ֝ תֹ֗וךְ נְ
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...
I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of (i) judgment: (i) For there can be no true justice or judgment, which is not rejected by this wisdom....
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 re...
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...
I LEAD IN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... As a king his subjects, a shepherd his flock; as a guide to persons that are ignorant and out of the way; as parents their children, teaching them to go; or as...
I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: Ver. 20. _I lead in the way of righteousness._] Which is to say, I got not my wealth _per fas atque nefas,_ by right and wro...
_I lead in the way of righteousness_ In the way of truth, justice, and mercy, of holiness and happiness; the way in which God would have men to walk, and which will certainly bring them to the desired...
I lead in the way of righteousness, literally, "I am walking," that being the standard of His conduct, IN THE MIDST OF THE PATHS OF JUDGMENT, all His dealings being in agreement with the demands of di...
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...
LEAD: Or, walk...
12-21 Wisdom, here is Christ, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; it is Christ in the word, and Christ in the heart; not only Christ revealed to us, but Christ revealed in us. All...
Proverbs 8:20 traverse H1980 (H8762) way H734 righteousness H6666 midst H8432 paths H5410 justice H4941 lead - or, walk,...
4). WISDOM GIVES RICHES AND HONOUR BOTH PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY TO THOSE WHO LOVE HER, AND ENABLES MEN TO WALK RIGHTLY (PROVERBS 8:18). Wisdom does not just enable rulers. She also gives durable ri...
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...
_I lead in the way of righteousnses._ SUBSTANCE THE INHERITANCE OF THE SAINTS I. Jesus leads in the way of righteousness-- 1. By leading them into His holy, strict, and condemning law. 2. By impla...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:18 Within a just society, the wise person will often enjoy RICHES AND HONOR. But wisdom gives something even greater: an ENDURING WEALTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, a f
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 8:17. EARLY, _i.e._, “earnestly” (see on ch. Proverbs 1:28). PROVERBS 8:18. DURABLE. Zöckler thinks this rather signifies “growing.”...
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...
Deuteronomy 5:32; Isaiah 2:3; Isaiah 49:10; Isaiah 55:4; John 10:27;...