Proverbs 8:31

Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. REJOICING IS THE HABITABLE PART OF HIS EARTH. Not only do I rejoice in the presence of the Father, but also in the habitable earth, and with the creatures of God. The Son doeth all His works with joy, not as a task, but as One in will and operation with the Father (). AND MY DELIGHTS (WERE) WITH THE SONS OF MEN - as the antitypical David, 'all whose delight' is "in the saints that are in the earth, and the excellent" (). Christ "took not on Him the nature of angels," but that of men (). Already, even before men were created, He regarded them as existing, because of the electing purpose of God concerning Hi...

22-31 The Son of God declares himself to have been engaged in the creation of the world. How able, how fit is the Son of God to be the Saviour of the world, who was the Creator of it! The Son of God was ordained, before the world, to that great work. Does he delight in saving wretched sinners, and shall not we delight in his salvation?...

Verse Proverbs 8:31. _REJOICING IN THE HABITABLE PART OF HIS EARTH_] There God displays especially his wisdom in ordering and directing _human_ _beings_, and in providing for their wants. The _wisdom_ of God is in an especial manner manifested in his _providence_. _MY DELIGHTS_ WERE _WITH THE SONS OF MEN__._] This Divine wisdom, as it delighted in the creation of man, so it continues to delight in his _instruction_. Hence it is represented as offering its lessons of instruction continually, and using every means and opportunity to call men from folly and vice to sound knowledge, holiness, and happiness. It is to man that God especially gives _wisdom_; and he has it in the form of _reason_ beyond all other creatures; therefore it is said, "My delights are with the sons of men;" to them I open my cho

Wisdom rejoices yet more in the world as inhabited by God’s rational creatures. (compare Isaiah 45:18). Giving joy and delight to God, she finds her delight among the sons of men. These words, like the rest, are as an unconscious prophecy fulfilled in the Divine Word, in whom were “hid all the treasures of Wisdom.” Compare the marginal reference: in Him the Father was well pleased; and yet His “joy also is fulfilled,” not in the glory of the material universe, but in His work among the sons of men....

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 ...

REJOICING IN THE HABITABLE PART OF HIS EARTH,.... In that part of the earth which is habitable; in filling it with inhabitants; in preserving and sustaining it in being, and the inhabitants of it; in governing it, and ordering all things in it for the best, according to his infinite wisdom and the counsel of his will; in bestowing the bounties of his providence, and in being the light and life of men: all which were done by him with the greatest ease, as well as pleasure and delight; it was a kind of sport or play unto him, as the word used signifies w; and so in Proverbs 8:30, which shows the allusion is to a nurse child. Moreover, this may have a peculiar view to the saints and people of God, and to those particular spots of ground in God's earth where they should dwell; for as the earth was made, and is continued on their account; so the very place of their birth and abode, as well as...

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

THE HABITABLE PART OF HIS EARTH. Hebrew. _tebel 'arez._ See note on "world", Proverbs 8:26. men. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. Compare Genesis 2:19; Genesis 3:8; Genesis 3:21. Made in HIS image. Genesis 1:26; Genesis 1:27....

_the habitable part of his earth_ Rather, HIS HABITABLE EARTH, R.V., lit. THE HABITABLE WORLD OF HIS EARTH. See Job 37:12, where the same Heb. expression is rendered, _the habitable world_, R.V. The thought is that Wisdom, who found glad exercise in every part and stage of creation as it advanced, had her consummated joy in the adaptation of the completed whole to be the dwelling-place of man, and in the "sons of men," for love of whom she had created it. Comp. Genesis 1:31....