Proverbs 1:21 (BSB)

in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:

From Proverbs 1. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 1:21

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 1:20-33: Solomon, having shown how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here shows how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God, which we shall for ever rue the neglect of. Observe, I. By whom God calls to us - by wisdom. It is wisdom that crieth without.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 1:21: She crieth in the chief place of concourse,.... Where a multitude of people meet together; the Targum is, "on the top of palaces;'' but rather it is to be understood of the synagogues of the Jews, where Christ frequently preached; and which, from hence, they build in the highest part of the city (c); and best of all the temple, whither the tribes of Israel...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 1:21: The publicity further indicated by terms designating places of most common resort.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 1:21: Pro 1:21 המיּות (plur. of הומי, the ground-form of הומה, from המי = המה), “they who are making noise;” for the epithet is poetically used (Isa 22:2) as a substantive, crowded noisy streets or places. ראשׁ is the place from which on several sides streets go forth: cf. ras el-ain, the place where the well breaks forth; ras en-nahr, the place from which the stream divides itself; the sing.