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Proverbs 8:16

By Me princes rule and nobles, even all the judges of the earth, the officials of the government of every degree.

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  • 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

    JUDGES OF THE EARTH. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Syriac, read "righteous judges"; reading _zedek,_ "righteousness", instead of _'erez,_ "earth". Revised Version follows th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _princes_ "or _rulers_," R.V. marg. The Heb. word is not the same as in Proverbs 8:15. The variety of words is used in order to bring all official positions within the domain of Wisdom. _of the earth_...

  • 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

    By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. BY ME PRINCES RULE, [ saariym (H8269)] - a different Hebrew word from that for "princes" [ rowzªniym (H7336)] in Proverbs 8:15. The...

  • 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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Solomon, who wrote the Book of Proverbs, was a king. He knew that he was responsible for many people. When he was young, he wanted to be a good king. He studied wisdom so that he would rule wisely. Al...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ALL THE JUDGES OF THE EARTH. — By the aid of heavenly wisdom only can they give right and just judgments, and so fulfil the high office delegated to them by God Himself, from the possession of which t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בִּ֭י שָׂרִ֣ים יָשֹׂ֑רוּ וּ֝ נְדִיבִ֗ים כָּל...

  • 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

    By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. Reader! do pause over these verses, and in the midst of admiring and adoring Christ in...

  • 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

    BY ME PRINCES RULE,.... All governors of provinces and cities, who are under the king as supreme; the discharge of whose office in a right manner requires much wisdom, prudence, justice, and integrity...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth._ Ver. 16. _And nobles._] So called in the original, from their liberality and bounty. Hence Luk 22:25 this word is expressed by Eυ...

  • 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

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 8:16 princes H8269 rule H8323 (H8799) nobles H5081 judges H8199 (H8802) earth H776...

  • 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...

  • 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 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

    2 Chronicles 1:10; Esther 1:22; Exodus 2:14; Genesis 12:15; Genesis

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