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Proverbs 8:14

Counsel is Mine, that basic knowledge, the essential wisdom, which is able to give real advice, and sound wisdom, that is, penetration, which goes to the bottom of things and tests them for their soundness and strength; I am Understanding; I have strength, that is, the energy necessary to put wisdom in action.

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See also Proverbs 8:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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_....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 8:12-21 12. I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion. 13. The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 contin...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SOUND WISDOM. — See above on Proverbs 2:7. STRENGTH. — Comp. Ecclesiastes 7:19. For these various gifts of wisdom, comp. Isaiah 11:2....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לִֽי ־עֵ֭צָה וְ תוּשִׁיָּ֑ה אֲנִ֥י בִ֝ינָ֗ה ל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

      “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Counsel is min...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _STRONG SON OF GOD!_ ‘I am understanding; I have strength.’ Proverbs 8:14 Consider (1) the self-assertion of Christ; (2) the bearing of that self-assertion on certain difficulties of our day. I. T...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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; an...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding; I have strength. Ver. 14. _Counsel is mine, &c._] Christ is "wise in heart, and mighty in strength," Job 9:4 his Church's both counsellor Is...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom_ Hebrew, ותושׁיה, _and essence_, that is, all solid, substantial, and useful wisdom is natural and essential to me. _I am understanding_ By my nature and essence. Or...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SOUND WISDOM: all solid, and substantial, and useful, yea essential wisdom, is natural and essential to me, for the word properly signifies _essence_. I AM UNDERSTANDING, or, my nature and essence, as...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 8:14 Counsel H6098 wisdom H8454 understanding H998 strength H1369 Counsel - Isaiah 9:6,...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    3). WISDOM HATES EVIL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR BUT ENABLES JUST GOVERNMENT FROM THOSE WHO LOVE HER (PROVERBS 8:13). This subsection which majors on wisdom's role in ensuring just government where she i...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Proverbs 8:14 Consider (1) the self-assertion of Christ; (2) the bearing of that self-assertion on certain difficulties of our day. I. The self-assertion of Christ is exhibited in three ways: (1) Chr...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I have understanding; I have strength._ THE SELF-ASSERTION OF CHRIST Here is more than a florid personification of wisdom. It is the Word who is from everlasting--“Christ the power of God, and the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:14 Wisdom can give the simple person the same INSIGHT used by KINGS and RULERS when they GOVERN nations...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 8:14_ THE SOURCE OF TRUE POWER I. MORAL WISDOM IS THE STRENGTH OF KINGS. “I have strength; by me kings rule.” There is a kind of strength in all wisdom. T...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Colossians 2:3; Ecclesiastes 7:19;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Wisdom — All solid and substantial and useful wisdom is assential to me....

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