Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 8:19
Gold - The “choice, fine gold” of margin reference. The “fine gold” in the second clause is a different word, and perhaps represents gold extracted from the ore.
Gold - The “choice, fine gold” of margin reference. The “fine gold” in the second clause is a different word, and perhaps represents gold extracted from the ore.
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...
_gold … silver_ Comp. Proverbs 3:14. _revenue_ Or, _increase_, R.V. marg., preserving the figure of _fruit_in the parallel clause. γενήματα, LXX.; genimina, Vulg. Proverbs 8:22. _Her august claims_....
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...
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. MY FRUIT (IS) BETTER THAN GOLD, YEA, THAN FINE GOLD. "My fruit" is the benefit derived from me (). AND MY REV...
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 best wealth is not money or gold. Rich people can lose their money. But wisdom is not like money. When we learn wisdom, it will benefit our whole lives....
MY FRUIT.... MY REVENUE. — _i.e.,_ the gain and profit which come from possessing me....
טֹ֣וב פִּ֭רְיִי מֵ חָר֣וּץ וּ מִ פָּ֑ז
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...
_Stone. So the Septuagint translate paz, (Haydock) which designates a more pure sort of gold, Genesis ii. 11. (Calmet)_...
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...
MY FRUIT [IS] BETTER THAN GOLD, YEA, THAN FINE GOLD,.... This is said in allusion to the fruit that grows on trees, Wisdom, or Christ, being a tree of life, Proverbs 3:18; and so he is compared to oth...
_My fruit [is] better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver._ Ver. 19. _My fruit is better than gold._] This wisdom is as those two golden pipes Zec 4:12 through which the...
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold, the riches which the believers obtain from Christ exceeding the wealth of Croesus in desirability, and MY REVENUE THAN CHOICE SILVER, exceeding it in...
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...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Proverbs 8:19 fruit H6529 better H2896 gold H2742 gold H6337 revenue H8393 choice H977 (H8737) silver H3701...
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...
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...
Ecclesiastes 7:12; Proverbs 3:14; Proverbs 8:10...