Proverbs 8:1 (BSB)

Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?

From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 8:1

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 8:1-11: The will of God revealed to us for our salvation is here largely represented to us as easy to be known and understood, that none may have an excuse for their ignorance or error, and as worthy to be embraced, that none may have an excuse for their carelessness and unbelief. I.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 8:1: Doth not wisdom cry?.... Christ, who is the Wisdom of God; See Gill on Pro 1:20; and which clearly appears from his subsistence with the Father, his eternal existence, and from many personal properties, characters, and actions ascribed to him throughout the whole of this chapter, and in the following.
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 8:1: Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? (a) Solomon declares that man is the cause of his own perdition and that he cannot pretend ignorance, for God calls all men by his word and his works to follow virtue and flee from vice.
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 8:1-3: Pro 8:1-3 The author has now almost exhausted the ethical material; for in this introduction to the Solomonic Book of Proverbs he works it into a memorial for youth, so that it is time to think of concluding the circle by bending back the end to the beginning. For as in the beginning, Pro 1:20., so also here in the end, he introduces Wisdom herself as speaking.