Proverbs 8:3 (BSB)

Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:

From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 8:3

• 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 8:3: She crieth at the gates,.... Of the temple, or of the city, where the courts of judicature were, and persons met on civil accounts; and where people were continually passing and repassing; at the entry of the city; meeting those that came out of the country to the city upon trade and business; at the coming in at the doors; of the temple, or city...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 8:3: She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors. (b) Where the people resorted most and which was the place of justice.
• 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.