Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 8:4
Men ... sons of man - The two words are used, which, like viri and homines, describe the higher and the lower, the stronger and the weaker. Compare the Psalms 49:2 note.
Men ... sons of man - The two words are used, which, like viri and homines, describe the higher and the lower, the stronger and the weaker. Compare the Psalms 49:2 note.
Verse Proverbs 8:4. _UNTO YOU, O MEN_] אישים _ishim_, men of _wealth_ and _power, will I call_; and not to you alone, for my voice is אל בני אדם _al beney Adam_, "to all the descendants of Adam;" to...
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...
MEN. Hebrew. _'ishim._ App-14. MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14....
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,...
Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. UNTO YOU, O MEN, I CALL; AND MY VOICE (IS) TO THE SONS OF MAN. "O men" (Ishim) - Hebrew, men of high position-do not think my call bene...
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...
This is a message to everyone. Wisdom (the woman) speaks to the people in every nation. You may be rich or poor. You may be a ruler, or an ordinary person. You may be a man or a woman. You may be youn...
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....
O MEN_ — _i.e., “great ones;” “sons of man” are those of inferior rank; comp. the Hebrew of Isaiah 2:9, where the same words are translated “great man,” and “mean man.” Comp. the generality of the inv...
אֲלֵיכֶ֣ם אִישִׁ֣ים אֶקְרָ֑א וְ֝ קֹולִ֗י אֶל...
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...
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...
UNTO YOU, O MEN, I CALL,.... Not angels, the fallen angels; for, as they had nothing to do with Christ, he had nothing to do with them, or say unto them, Matthew 8:29; nor the brutes, irrational creat...
Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice [is] to the sons of man. Ver. 4. _Unto you, O men, I call._] _O viri praestantes,_ - so some render it, O ye eminent men, whether for greatness of birth, wealth,...
_She standeth in the top of high places_ Where she may be best seen and heard; not in corners, and in the dark, as the harlot did; _by the way in the places of the paths_ Where many paths meet, where...
OF THE MESSIAH, THE PERSONAL WISDOM. The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts....
Unto you, O men, I call, and My voice is to the sons of man, the implication being that not one human being is excepted from the message herewith proclaimed. The sum of the proclamation is now offered...
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...
To all men without exception, even to the meanest, who are thus called, PSALMS 49:2....
Proverbs 8:4 men H376 call H7121 (H8799) voice H6963 sons H1121 men H120 Psalms 49:1-3,...
1). WISDOM CALLS ON MEN TO HEAR HER (PROVERBS 8:1). Wisdom had been defined for us earlier in the Prologue. She is based on ‘the fear of YHWH' (Proverbs 1:29; Proverbs 2:5;...
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...
_Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man._ GOD REVEALED IN THE UNIVERSE AND IN HUMANITY The truth, which can guide us to perfection and to happiness, is teaching us always and eve...
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...
1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Corinthians 5:19; 2 Corinthians 5:20; Colossians 1:23;...
O men — To all men without exception....