Text -- Proverbs 8:12 (NET)

8:12 “I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 8:12

¹ tn The noun is “shrewdness,” i.e., the right use of knowledge in special cases (see also the discussion in 1:4); cf. NLT “good judgment.” The word in this sentence is an adverbial accusative of specification.

² tn This verb form is an imperfect, whereas the verb in the first colon was a perfect tense. The perfect should be classified as a gnomic perfect, and this form a habitual imperfect, because both verbs describe the nature of wisdom.