They [are] all (c) plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
(c) Meaning that the word of God is easy to all that have a desire for it and are not blinded by the prince of this world.
Verse Proverbs 8:9. _THEY_ ARE _ALL PLAIN_] נכחים _nechochim_, straight forward, over against every man, level to every capacity. This is true of all that concerns the salvation of the soul. _TO THE...
Words of the ideal Wisdom, which find their highest fulfillment in that of the Incarnate Word. Compare Luke 4:22; Matthew 11:19....
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...
Comp. Matthew 13:11; Matthew 13:16. Proverbs 8:10. _The treasures she offers_. In place of gold and silver and precious stones and whatever else men covet, wisdom offers "durable riches," intellectu...
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,...
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. THEY (ARE) ALL PLAIN TO HIM THAT UNDERSTANDETH, AND RIGHT TO THEM THAT FIND KNOWLEDGE - (, "Do not my words do g...
8:9 plain (c-4) See 'right on,' ch. 4.25. right (d-10) Or 'straight,' as ch. 4. 25....
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 woman called Wisdom speaks good words. Her words are always true (verse 6). They are fair (verse 7). She does not speak wrong words (verse 7). Everything that she says is perfect (verse 9). God i...
THEY ARE ALL PLAIN... — Because “the secret of the Lord is (only) with them that fear Him “(Psalms 25:14), and God reveals such things unto them by His Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:10), while the “natural...
כֻּלָּ֣ם נְ֭כֹחִים לַ † מֵּבִ֑ין וִֽ֝ ישָׁרִ֗ים...
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...
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. For my mouth shall speak 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...
THEY [ARE] ALL PLAIN TO HIM THAT UNDERSTANDETH,.... Whose understanding is enlightened by the Spirit of God; who is a spiritual man, that has a discerning, and can judge of spiritual things: as for th...
They [are] all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. Ver. 9. _They are all plain to him that understandeth._] Plain in things necessary to salvation; for as all duti...
_For my mouth shall speak truth_ Hebrew, יהגה, _shall meditate_, that is, shall speak, not rashly and hastily, but what I have well considered and digested. _Wickedness is an abomination_, &c. I hate...
They are all plain to him that understandeth, so that the way of salvation is clear, AND RIGHT TO THEM THAT FIND KNOWLEDGE, teaching them the duties of sanctification....
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...
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...
PLAIN; evident and clear to their minds; or, right, just and good. TO HIM THAT UNDERSTANDETH; either to him who with an honest mind applies himself to the study of them in the diligent use of all the...
Proverbs 8:9 plain H5228 understands H995 (H8688) right H3477 find H4672 (H8802) knowledge H1847...
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...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:6 Wisdom describes the character of her speech (NOBLE THINGS, RIGHT, RIGHTEOUS, NOTHING TWISTED OR CROOKED) in contras
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 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 2:15; Isaiah 35:8; James 1:5; Joh
To him — Whose mind God hath enlightened. To them — That are truly wise....