Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Proverbs 8:12
I wisdom dwell with (d) prudence, and find out knowledge and discretion.
(d) That is, unless a man has wisdom, which is the true knowledge of God, he can be neither a prudent nor good counsellor.
I wisdom dwell with (d) prudence, and find out knowledge and discretion.
(d) That is, unless a man has wisdom, which is the true knowledge of God, he can be neither a prudent nor good counsellor.
Verse Proverbs 8:12. _I WISDOM DWELL WITH PRUDENCE_] Prudence is defined, _wisdom applied to practice_; so wherever true wisdom is, it will lead to action, and its activity will be always in referenc...
Wisdom first speaks warnings (Proverbs 1:24 note), next promises (Proverbs 2:1 note); but here she neither promises nor threatens, but speaks of her own excellence. “Prudence” is the “subtilty” (see t...
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...
I WISDOM DWELL. Wisdom personified. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6. WITTY. sagacious. Anglo-Saxon _witan,_ to know; like Greek. _oida_. to know intuitively: not by effort, which is _ginosko =...
Proverbs 8:12. _What she is and gives_. 12. _dwell with prudence_ marg. _subtilty_. Rather, have made SUBTILTY (marg. _prudence_) MY DWELLING, R.V.; κατεσκήνωσα βουλὴν LXX.; habito in consilio, Vulg....
AND FIND OUT KNOWLEDGE OF WITTY INVENTIONS— _And penetrate the knowledge of right things._ Schultens; who observes, that the first clause contains a very splendid image, _"I wisdom inhabit prudence."_...
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 wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. I WISDOM DWELL WITH PRUDENCE - I am most intimately associated with her. Compare the phrase "dwell with," in Isaiah 57:15;...
8:12 reflection. (f-13) Here the plural, as ch. 5.2....
Read, 'I, Wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling,' i.e. I am complete master of it. 14-16. There is no genuine statesmanship apart from wisdom. 22-31. This account of creation reminds us of Genesis 1...
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....
If you are wise, then you will also be skilful. Your wisdom will help you to make the right decisions....
DWELL WITH PRUDENCE. — (_‘ormah_)_,_ literally, _inhabit_ it, have settled down and taken up my abode with it, am at home there. WITTY INVENTIONS. — Literally, _well thought out plans_ (_mezimmôth_)...
אֲֽנִי ־חָ֭כְמָה שָׁכַ֣נְתִּי עָרְמָ֑ה וְ דַ֖עַת...
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...
_Thoughts. All good comes from God, the eternal wisdom, (Calmet) which speaks here. (Worthington)_...
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Counsel is min...
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 WISDOM DWELL WITH PRUDENCE,.... Here Wisdom begins to speak in her own person, and continues to do so unto the end of the chapter; or Christ describes himself, pencils out and draws his own picture,...
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. Ver. 12. _I wisdom dwell with prudence._] I draw all into practice, and teach men to prove by their own experience, what "tha...
_I wisdom dwell with prudence_ I do not content myself with high speculations, but my inseparable companion is prudence, to govern all my own actions, and to direct the actions of others. This is said...
I, Wisdom, dwell with prudence, skill in making use of every situation in life in the proper manner is His constant companion, AND FIND OUT KNOWLEDGE OF WITTY INVENTIONS, of sagacious counsels, He Him...
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...
PRUDENCE: Or, subtilty...
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...
DWELL WITH PRUDENCE; I do not content myself with high speculations, but my inseparable companion is prudence, to govern all my own actions, and to direct the actions of others, by good counsels. This...
Proverbs 8:12 wisdom H2451 dwell H7931 (H8804) prudence H6195 out H4672 (H8799) knowledge H1847 discretion H4209
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...
_I, Wisdom, dwell with Prudence._ PRUDENCE This has been brought into unmerited contempt by being associated with what is really its opposite. The abuse of the title has led to practical evils. Indiv...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 8:12. DWELL WITH or “inhabit.” WITTY INVENTIONS, “skilful plans” _(Stuart)_, “sagacious counsels” _(Zöckler)_ PROVERBS 8:14. SOUND WISDOM, the same word as in chap. P
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 Chronicles 28:12; 1 Chronicles 28:19; 1 Kings 7:14; 2 Chronicles 13:14;...
I dwell — My inseparable companion is prudence to govern all my actions, and to direct the actions of others. Find out — I help men to find out. Inventions — Of all ingenious contrivances for the glor...