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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20-23

Wisdom Is Depicted As Crying Out In Longing That People Will Respond To Her Words And Gain From What She Offers (Proverbs 1:20-23 ). Wisdom is now personified as a woman crying out to people to respond to her words. She is in direct contrast to the woman who cries out to young men seeking to lead them astray (Proverbs 2:1-19; Proverbs 7:8-27) whose name is Folly (Proverbs 9:13-18). See also Proverbs 5:3-11; Proverbs 6:24-35. Thus God’s Wisdom is to be the palliative to immoral yearnings. The... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20-33

Wisdom Is Depicted As Crying Out To Be Heard, Longing For Response, Promising Inculcation Of Her Own Spirit, And Warning Of The Consequences Of Refusal (Proverbs 1:20-33 ). We have here the first of the wisdom passages, where Wisdom herself speaks, crying out to be heard and warning of the consequences of refusal. But Wisdom is essentially God’s Wisdom. Consider especially Proverbs 3:19-20; Proverbs 8:22-31. Thus when Wisdom speaks, God speaks. The passage conveys its ideals chiastically: A ... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:1-33

Proverbs 1-9. First Section. The Praise of Wisdom. Proverbs 1:1 . Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection.The word for proverb, mâ shâ l, has a wide significance in Heb. ( see BDB) . Probably it originally expressed a comparison or allusion, drawn from history or nature, and employed to convey a taunt or satire, hence the rendering “ taunt-song.” For different meanings cf. Numbers 21:27, Deuteronomy 28:37, Job 13:12, Isaiah 14:4, Ezekiel 12:23. Ezekiel’ s use... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:21

The chief place of concourse; where there is probability of most success. The opening of the gates; where magistrates sit in judgment, and people are assembled. So it crieth both to the wise and to the unwise, as Paul preached, Romans 1:14. In the city; not only in the gate, but in every part of the city. Or, in the cities, the singular number being put for the plural. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-32

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 1:20. The word wisdom is in the plural form in the Hebrew. Proverbs 1:27. Desolation, or “tempest.” Proverbs 1:28. To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See ch. Proverbs 8:17, Hosea 5:15. The person now changes from the second to the third, “as though wisdom were increasing alienated” (Miller). Proverbs 1:32. The turning away of the simple, i.e., their rejection of wisdom. Prosperity, “Security,” “idle, easy rest.”MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH—Proverbs 1:20-23THE CRY OF... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-22

Proverbs 1:20-22 The wisdom of God is a manifold wisdom. While it centres bodily in Christ, and thence issues as from its source, it is reflected and re-echoed from every object and every event. Every law of nature and every event in history has a tongue by which wisdom proclaims God's holiness and rebukes man's sin. Three classes of persons seem to be singled out here, and to each is administered an appropriate reproof: I. The simple, who love simplicity. Probably we should not be far from the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Proverbs 1:20-31

DISCOURSE: 753THE NEED OF ATTENDING TO GOD’S GRACIOUS INVITATIONSProverbs 1:20-31. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you. I will make known my words unto you. Because I... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:1-33

Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times write a preface to their work.The Proverbs of Solomon the son of David, the king of Israel ( Proverbs 1:1 );When Solomon first came into the throne of his father David, the kingdom of Israel had come really to the zenith of its glory, of power. It was at that point one of the strongest kingdoms in the world. Blessed of God mightily. And when Solomon became... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 1:1-33

Proverbs 1:1 . Proverbs, apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pass from hand to hand, without scruple or fear. The Hebrew word משׁלים mishelim, from משׁל mashal, to rule or govern, signifies a collection of wise sayings for the government of life and conduct. Proverbs 1:2 . To know wisdom. This little volume comes cheap to us, but it cost the king of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 1:20-23

Proverbs 1:20-23Wisdom crieth without The voice of true WisdomThe Lord Jesus Christ is the true Wisdom which speaks to the sons of men.The ancients were accustomed to speak of their religion as wisdom or philosophy, and therefore the Greeks represented Minerva as the goddess of wisdom, saying that she had proceeded from the brain of Jupiter.I. The attitude which wisdom takes when she addresses the sons of men.1. Her appeal is an open and public one.2. Her proposals are of a varied description.... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20-23

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20-33

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:1-33

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:21

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-32

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-22

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Proverbs 1:20-31

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:1-33

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 1:1-33

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 1:20-23

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