Proverbs 8:14

Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. COUNSEL (IS) MINE, AND SOUND WISDOM. It is only with me that wisdom, solid, salutary, and substantial, in all possible contingencies, is to be found. Compare note, , on "sound wisdom" - not deceptive, unsubstantial, and fleeting, like "the wisdom of this world" which is "foolishness with God" (). I AM UNDERSTANDING (i:e., I am the source of it); I HAVE STRENGTH. As in the former clause, "counsel" and "sound wisdom" are said to be hers, enabling her disciples to frame good plans; so she is "understanding" to her disciples, enabling them to execute their good plans. As to the strength which she has at command for them, cf....

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 prudence and skill are from the Lord. Through the redemption of Christ's precious blood, the riches of his grace abound in all wisdom and prudence. Man found out many inventions for ruin; God found one for our recovery. He hates pride and arrogance, evil ways and froward conversation; these render men unwilling to hear his humbling, awakening, holy instructions. True religion gives men the best counsel in all difficult cases, and helps to make their way plain. His wisdom makes all truly happy who receive it in the love of Christ Jesus. Seek him early, seek him earnestly, seek him before any thing else. Christ never said, Seek in vain. Those who love Christ, are such as have seen his loveline...

Verse Proverbs 8:14. _COUNSEL_ IS _MINE_] _Direction_ how to act in all circumstances and on all occasions must come from _wisdom_: the _foolish_ man can give no _counsel_, cannot show another how he is to act in the various changes and chances of life. The wise man alone can give this counsel; and he can give it only as continually receiving instruction from God: for this Divine wisdom can say, תושיה TUSHIYAH, _substance, reality, essence_, all belong to me: I am the _Fountain_ whence all are derived. Man may be wise, and good, and prudent, and ingenious; but these he derives from me, and they are _dependently_ in him. But in _me_ all these are _independently_ and _essentially_ inherent. _AND SOUND WISDOM_] See above. This is a totally false translation: תושיה _tushiyah_ means essen

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 greatness of the blessings which she offers exhibits in the most marked manner the nothingness of the deceiver's gifts. One is reminded of the celebrated episode of the choice of Hercules, delineated by Xenophon, 'Memorab.,' 2.1. 21, etc. The chapter divides itself into four sections. (1) Introductory (Proverbs 7:1); Wisdom calls on all to listen, and gives reasons for trusting to her ...

COUNSEL [IS] MINE, AND SOUND WISDOM,.... The words and sentiments in this and the following clause are the same with those in Job 12:13; and scent to be taken from thence, which are spoken of God; and being here applied to Wisdom, show that a divine Person is meant; and are very applicable to him who the Wisdom of God, and the power of God; and on whom rests the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, of counsel, and of might, and of the fear of the Lord, 1 Corinthians 1:24. "Counsel" belongs to him, and is used and exercised by him, as concerned with the Father and Spirit, both in the words of nature and grace; to whom all the purposes and counsels of God are known; and who was consulted in the creation of man, and in his redemption, reconciliation, and salvation; the council of peace being b

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 8:32) Proverbs 8:1. This is one of the most interesting Chapter s in the entire book. It begins with a call and appeal of wisdom, much like the call and appeal of the first chapter. If wisdom calls, has a voice, then wisdom must also be a person. Who personified wisdom is we learn most blessedly in this chapt

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 profounder presentation of wisdom as the moving principle in the ways of God. It reinforces the practical maxims of Proverbs 8:1 with the fundamental principle that the wise man is in harmony with God. Its date probably fixes the date of the whole section (see Introduction, and for a fuller discussion especially Cheyne, _Job and Solomon,_ pp. 156f.). The relation of the conception of Wisdom personified to the Stoic Logos and to Greek philosophy in general cannot be discussed here. (See _Wisdom Literature_ in HDB, and especially the excellent introduction by Holmes to the Book of Wisdom in Charles-' _Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha._) The two main lines of development of this conception in H

SOUND WISDOM. See note on Proverbs 2:7. UNDERSTANDINGS. discernment. See note on Proverbs 1:2....

_sound wisdom_ So the same word is rendered both by A.V. and R.V. in Proverbs 2:7. Here, however, R.V. renders _sound knowledge_, and in marg. offers the alternative, _effectual working_....

COUNSEL IS MINE, AND SOUND WISDOM— _Good government:_ Houbigant; who renders the next clause, _Prudence is mine; mine is fortitude._...