Proverbs 1:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

Proverbs 1:20 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 9:3
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
Colossians 2:3
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
1 Corinthians 1:24
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Proverbs 8:1-5
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? …
Luke 11:49
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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. The word is plural— wisdoms, for, as there is infinite wisdom in God, so there is the manifold wisdom of God, Eph. 3:10. God s…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20-33. Some interpreters regard this address as the language of the Son of God under the name of Wisdom (compare Lu 11:49). Others think that wisdom, as the divine attribute specially employed in acts of counsel and admonition, is here personified, and represents God. In either case the address is a most solemn and divine admonition, whose matter and spirit are eminently evangelical and impressive…