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Gill's Exposition
Wisdom crieth without,.... Here the person instructing throughout this whole book is represented under the name of "Wisdom"; by which we are to understand not the attribute of divine wisdom displayed…
Barnes' Notes
Wisdom is personified. In the Hebrew the noun is a feminine plural, as though this Wisdom were the queen of all wisdoms, uniting in herself all their excellences. She lifts up her voice, not in…
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.…
Cambridge Bible
Second Address. Warning against Neglecting the Appeal of Wisdom. Chap. 1. Pro 1:20-33
20. crieth Rather, crieth aloud, R.V.
without Rather, in the street, R.V. The expression is sometimes used…
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