Chapter 8

Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

1.20,21 9.1-3 Isaiah 49.1-6 55.1-3 Matthew 3.3 4.17 28.19,20 Mark 13.10 16.15,16 Luke 24.47 John 7.37 Acts 1.8 22.21 Romans 15.18-21

She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

Matthew 22.9 Luke 14.21-23 John 18.20 Acts 5.20

Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

Psalms 49.1-3 50.1 Matthew 11.15 John 3.16 2 Corinthians 5.19,20 Colossians 1.23,28 1 Timothy 2.4-6 Titus 2.11,12 Revelation 22.17

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

1.22 9.4 Psalms 19.7 94.8 Isaiah 42.13 55.1-3 Acts 26.18 1 Corinthians 1.28 1 Corinthians 6.9-11 Revelation 3.17,18

Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

for

2.6,7 4.2,20-22 22.20,21 Psalms 19.7-11 49.3 1 Corinthians 2.6,7 Colossians 1.26

the opening

Job 33.1-3 Matthew 5.2-12 7.28,29 13.35

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

my mouth

Job 36.4 John 1.17 8.14,45,46 14.6 17.17 18.37 Revelation 3.14

an abomination to

Heb. the abomination of.

12.22 16.12 29.27

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

All

Psalms 12.6 Isaiah 45.23 63.1

there

13 John 7.46

froward

Heb. wreathed.

They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

14.6 15.14,24 17.24 18.1,2,15 Psalms 19.7,8 25.12-14 119.98-100 Isaiah 35.8 Micah 2.7 Matthew 13.11,12 John 6.45 7.17 1 Corinthians 2.14,15 James 1.5

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

2.4,5 3.13,14 10.20 16.16 23.23 Psalms 119.72,127,162 Ecclesiastes 7.11 Acts 3.6 2 Corinthians 6.10

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

wisdom

3.14 4.5-7 16.16 20.15 Job 28.15-19 Psalms 19.10 119.127 Matthew 16.26 Philippians 3.8,9

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

I wisdom

Psalms 104.24 Isaiah 55.8,9 Romans 11.33 Ephesians 1.8,11 3.10 Colossians 2.3

prudence

or, subtlety. knowledge.

Exodus 31.3-6 35.30-35 36.1-4 1 Kings 7.14 1 Chronicles 28.12,19 2 Chronicles 13.14 Isaiah 28.26

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

The fear

16.6 Psalms 97.10 101.3 119.104,128 Amos 5.15 Romans 12.9 1 Thessalonians 5.22 2 Timothy 2.19

pride

6.16-19 1 Samuel 2.3 Psalms 5.4,5 138.6 Zechariah 8.17 1 Peter 5.5

the froward

4.24 6.12 10.31

Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

Counsel

Isaiah 9.6 40.14 John 1.9 Romans 11.33,34 1 Corinthians 1.24,30 Colossians 2.3

sound

2.6,7 Romans 1.22

I have

24.5 Ecclesiastes 7.19 9.16-18

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

By

1 Samuel 9.17 16.1 1 Chronicles 28.5 Jeremiah 27.5-7 Daniel 2.21 4.25,32 5.18-31 Daniel 7.13,14 Matthew 28.18 Romans 13.1 Revelation 19.16

decree

1 Kings 3.9,28 5.7 10.9 Psalms 72.1-4 99.4 Isaiah 1.26 32.1,2 Jeremiah 33.15 Revelation 19.11

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

I love

1 Samuel 2.30 Psalms 91.14 John 14.21,23 16.27 1 John 4.19

those

Ecclesiastes 12.1 Isaiah 45.19 55.6 Matthew 6.33 7.7,8 Mark 10.14 James 1.5

Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

Riches and honour

3.16 4.7-9 James 2.5

durable

Psalms 36.6 Ecclesiastes 5.14-16 Matthew 6.19,20 Luke 10.42 12.20,21,33 16.11,12 2 Corinthians 6.10 Ephesians 3.8 Philippians 4.19 1 Timothy 6.17-19 James 5.1-3 Revelation 3.18

and righteousness

11.4 Matthew 6.33 Philippians 3.8,9

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

10 3.14 Ecclesiastes 7.12

I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

lead

or, walk.

3.6 4.11,12 6.22 Psalms 23.3 25.4,5 32.8 Isaiah 2.3 49.10 55.4 John 10.3,27,28 Revelation 7.17

in the

4.25-27 Deuteronomy 5.32

That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

to inherit

18 1.13 6.31 Genesis 15.14 1 Samuel 2.8 Matthew 25.46 John 1.1-18 Romans 8.17 Hebrews 10.34 1 Peter 1.4

fill

Psalms 16.11 Ephesians 3.19,20 Revelation 21.7

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

3.19 John 1.1,2 Colossians 1.17

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

Genesis 1.26 Psalms 2.6 Micah 5.2 John 17.24 Ephesians 1.10,11 1 John 1.1,2

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

I was

Psalms 2.7 John 1.14 3.16 5.20 Hebrews 1.5 1 John 4.9

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

Job 15.7,8 38.4-11 Psalms 90.2 102.25-28 Hebrews 1.10

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

as yet

Genesis 1.1-31

fields

or, open places. highest part. or, chief part.

When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

he prepared

Psalms 33.6 103.19 136.5 Jeremiah 10.12 Colossians 1.16 Hebrews 1.2

compass

or, circle.

Isaiah 40.11,22

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

he gave

Genesis 1.9,10 Job 38.8-11 Psalms 33.7 104.9 Jeremiah 5.22

when he appointed

Job 38.4-7

Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

one

John 1.1-3,18 16.28

I was daily

Isaiah 42.1 Matthew 3.17 17.5 John 12.28 Colossians 1.13

Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

and my

Psalms 16.3 40.6-8 John 4.34 13.1 2 Corinthians 8.9

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

for

Psalms 1.1-4 119.1,2 128.1 Luke 11.28

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Hear

1.2,3,8 4.1 5.1 Isaiah 55.1-3 Romans 10.16,17

refuse

1.21 Psalms 81.11,12 Acts 7.35-37 Hebrews 12.25

Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

watching

1.21 2.3,4 Psalms 27.4 84.10 92.13 Matthew 7.24 Luke 1.6 10.39 11.28 John 8.31,32 Acts 2.42 17.11,12 James 1.22-25

For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.

whoso

1.33 3.13-18 John 3.16,36 14.6 Philippians 3.8 Colossians 3.3 1 John 5.11,12

obtain

Heb. bring forth. favour.

12.2 Ephesians 1.6

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

he

1.31 20.2 John 3.19,20 Acts 13.46 Hebrews 2.3 10.29

all

5.11,12,22,23 Ezekiel 18.31 33.11 John 15.23,24 1 Corinthians 16.22