Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Proverbs 8:18
Riches and honour [are] with me; (h) durable riches and righteousness.
(h) Signifying that he chiefly means the spiritual treasures and heavenly riches.
Riches and honour [are] with me; (h) durable riches and righteousness.
(h) Signifying that he chiefly means the spiritual treasures and heavenly riches.
Verse Proverbs 8:18. _RICHES AND HONOUR_ ARE _WITH ME_] Often the wise, prudent, and discreet man arrives literally to _riches_ and _honour_; but this is not _always_ the case. But there are _other r...
DURABLE RICHES - i. e., Treasure piled up for many years; ancient wealth....
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...
_durable_ Or, _ancient_, R.V. marg. The word, of which the root meaning is _to grow old_, in the sense of continuance, may look backward to what has already grown old and is _ancient_, or forward to w...
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...
Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. RICHES AND HONOUR ARE WITH ME; (YEA,) DURABLE RICHES AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. "Riches," as well the eternal and heavenly riches, as a...
8:18 durable (k-7) Or 'resplendent.'...
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...
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....
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....
RICHES AND HONOUR ARE WITH ME. — “If this passage is taken in a material sense, Psalms 112:3 and the promises in the Pentateuch of wealth as the reward of obedience might be compared with it. But doub...
עֹֽשֶׁר ־וְ כָבֹ֥וד אִתִּ֑י הֹ֥ון עָ֝תֵ֗ק וּ
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...
_Glorious. Literally, "proud." (Haydock) --- But here it only means great, Isaias ix 15., and lxi. 6. Riches too commonly nourish pride, and it is very rare to see them joined with justice. (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...
RICHES AND HONOUR [ARE] WITH ME,.... By "riches" are meant not the riches of Christ's person, the perfections of his nature, his works, and his vast empire over all creatures, and the revenues arising...
Riches and honour [are] with me; [yea], durable riches and righteousness. Ver. 18. _Riches and honour are with me._] I come not unaccompanied, but bring with me that which is well worth having. The m...
_I love them that love me_ I do not despise their love, though it be but a small and inconsiderable thing to me, but I kindly accept it, and will recompense it with my love and favour; _and those that...
Riches and honor, of the true and lasting kind, ARE WITH ME; YEA, DURABLE, that is, increasing, riches and righteousness, the latter especially being the lasting possession of those who cling to the p...
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...
Which he mentions here, either, 1. As the best and surest way to get and to keep riches; for estates unjustly gotten quickly vanish, as is manifest both from Scripture and from common observation. Or...
Proverbs 8:18 Riches H6239 honor H3519 Enduring H6276 riches H1952 righteousness H6666 Riches and honour - Proverbs 3:16,
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...
_Riches and honour are with Me; yea, durable riches and righteousness._ ON GAINING AND USING RICHES Whatever is true and substantial happiness even in this life has a necessary dependence upon morali...
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...
1 Timothy 6:17; 2 Corinthians 6:10; Ecclesiastes 5:14; Ephesians 3:8;...