
Text -- Proverbs 8:31 (NET)




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Wesley -> Pro 8:31
Wesley: Pro 8:31 - -- To uphold them by my power and providence, to reveal myself and my Father's will to them from age to age, to assume their nature, and to redeem and sa...
To uphold them by my power and providence, to reveal myself and my Father's will to them from age to age, to assume their nature, and to redeem and save them.
JFB -> Pro 8:30-31
JFB: Pro 8:30-31 - -- An object of special and pleasing regard. The bestowal of wisdom on men is represented by its finding a delightful residence and pleasing God.
An object of special and pleasing regard. The bestowal of wisdom on men is represented by its finding a delightful residence and pleasing God.
Clarke: Pro 8:31 - -- Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth - There God displays especially his wisdom in ordering and directing human beings, and in providing for...
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth - There God displays especially his wisdom in ordering and directing human beings, and in providing for their wants. The wisdom of God is in an especial manner manifested in his providence

Clarke: Pro 8:31 - -- My delights were with the sons of men - This Divine wisdom, as it delighted in the creation of man, so it continues to delight in his instruction. H...
My delights were with the sons of men - This Divine wisdom, as it delighted in the creation of man, so it continues to delight in his instruction. Hence it is represented as offering its lessons of instruction continually, and using every means and opportunity to call men from folly and vice to sound knowledge, holiness, and happiness. It is to man that God especially gives wisdom; and he has it in the form of reason beyond all other creatures; therefore it is said, "My delights are with the sons of men;"to them I open my choicest treasures. They alone are capable of sapience, intelligence, and discursive reason.
Defender -> Pro 8:31
Defender: Pro 8:31 - -- "Habitable part" is one word in Hebrew, normally rendered "world." The joy of the Creator in His creation focused especially on "the sons of men ('Ada...
"Habitable part" is one word in Hebrew, normally rendered "world." The joy of the Creator in His creation focused especially on "the sons of men ('Adam');" those created in His image."
TSK -> Pro 8:31

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Barnes -> Pro 8:31
Barnes: Pro 8:31 - -- Wisdom rejoices yet more in the world as inhabited by God’ s rational creatures. (compare Isa 45:18). Giving joy and delight to God, she finds ...
Wisdom rejoices yet more in the world as inhabited by God’ s rational creatures. (compare Isa 45:18). Giving joy and delight to God, she finds her delight among the sons of men. These words, like the rest, are as an unconscious prophecy fulfilled in the Divine Word, in whom were "hid all the treasures of Wisdom."Compare the marginal reference: in Him the Father was well pleased; and yet His "joy also is fulfilled,"not in the glory of the material universe, but in His work among the sons of men.
Poole -> Pro 8:31
Poole: Pro 8:31 - -- Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth in contemplating the wonderful wisdom and goodness of God in the making and ordering of all his creature...
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth in contemplating the wonderful wisdom and goodness of God in the making and ordering of all his creatures, and of man especially.
My delights were with the sons of men to uphold them by my power and providence, to reveal myself and my Father’ s mind and will to them from age to age, to assume their nature, and to redeem and save them, which I would not do for the fallen angels.
Haydock -> Pro 8:31
Haydock: Pro 8:31 - -- Men. God saw that all was good, but delighted most in his own image. (Menochius) ---
He prefers man before all other corporeal creatures. (Worth...
Men. God saw that all was good, but delighted most in his own image. (Menochius) ---
He prefers man before all other corporeal creatures. (Worthington) ---
To him alone below he has granted understanding, and a soul capable of virtue. The Son has also assumed our nature, Baruch iii. 37.
Gill -> Pro 8:31
Gill: Pro 8:31 - -- Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth,.... In that part of the earth which is habitable; in filling it with inhabitants; in preserving and sust...
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth,.... In that part of the earth which is habitable; in filling it with inhabitants; in preserving and sustaining it in being, and the inhabitants of it; in governing it, and ordering all things in it for the best, according to his infinite wisdom and the counsel of his will; in bestowing the bounties of his providence, and in being the light and life of men: all which were done by him with the greatest ease, as well as pleasure and delight; it was a kind of sport or play unto him, as the word used signifies w; and so in Pro 8:30, which shows the allusion is to a nurse child. Moreover, this may have a peculiar view to the saints and people of God, and to those particular spots of ground in God's earth where they should dwell; for as the earth was made, and is continued on their account; so the very place of their birth and abode, as well as of their conversion, were afore appointed and fixed by the Lord, which Christ in his eternal mind had a foreview of, and took a pleasure in: besides, they themselves are the habitation of God, and Christ, and the blessed Spirit; the church of God is his dwelling place on earth, where he delights to dwell, over whom he rejoices to do good, and whom he makes glad; so some read the words, "making glad the habitable part of his earth" x. Once more, the new earth, which will be after this is passed, away, may be truly called his, or the second Adam's earth; and in which only righteous persons shall dwell, and with whom the tabernacle of God shall be, or with whom Christ shall dwell a thousand years; and in the foreview of this he may be thought to take delight and pleasure, even before the world was. The human nature of Christ may not be amiss thought of, which was formed in the lower parts of the earth, and therefore he is called the fruit of the earth, Psa 139:15, Isa 4:2; and may be said to be habitable, in which the fulness of the Godhead dwells, and the Word tabernacled, and is the true tabernacle; in the foreview of which the Son of God rejoiced, as to be produced without sin by the Holy Spirit, and adorned with his graces, and to be united to his person; in which he was to work out the salvation of his people, and be glorified; and his, joy, in the foreview of it, appears by his frequent appearances in a human form before his actual incarnation, as "preludiums" of it;
and my delights were with the sons of men; or of Adam, of fallen Adam; not with angels, but with men; not with all men, only some; and those as considered as the objects of his own and his Father's love; as beheld in the glass of his Father's decrees; as chosen in him, and given him by his Father; as his children, and as his spouse and bride. The word for "delights" is not only in the plural number, but its two first radical letters are doubled, which, in the Hebrew language, increases the signification of the word; and so expresses the exceeding great delight and pleasure which Christ took in his people from everlasting; his love was then a love of the utmost complacency and delight, and continued, notwithstanding their fall in Adam, though by nature children of wrath, and transgressors from the womb. This appears by his early engagement as a surety for them; by his espousing their persons and their cause; by assuming their nature in time; by suffering and dying in their room and stead, and working out salvation for them; by bearing them on his heart in heaven, and there interceding for them; by taking them out of a state of nature; by visiting them with his grace and presence; and by bringing them, through a variety of trials, safe to his kingdom and glory.

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TSK Synopsis -> Pro 8:1-36
TSK Synopsis: Pro 8:1-36 - --1 The fame,6 and evidence of wisdom.10 The excellency,12 the nature,15 the power,18 the riches,22 and the eternity of wisdom.32 Wisdom is to be desire...
Maclaren -> Pro 8:30-31
Maclaren: Pro 8:30-31 - --Wisdom And Christ
Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; 31, Rejoicing in the habit...
MHCC -> Pro 8:22-31
MHCC: Pro 8:22-31 - --The Son of God declares himself to have been engaged in the creation of the world. How able, how fit is the Son of God to be the Saviour of the world,...
Matthew Henry -> Pro 8:22-31
Matthew Henry: Pro 8:22-31 - -- That it is an intelligent and divine person that here speaks seems very plain, and that it is not meant of a mere essential property of the divine n...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 8:28-31
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 8:28-31 - --
In Pro 8:28, Pro 8:29, these two features of the figure of the creation of the world return (the beginning of the firmament, and the embankment of t...
Constable: Pro 1:1--9:18 - --I. DISCOURSES ON WISDOM chs. 1--9
Verse one introduces both the book as a whole and chapters 1-9 in particular. ...

Constable: Pro 8:1--9:18 - --C. The Value of Wisdom and Wise Conduct chs. 8-9
Solomon explained the value of wisdom in many ways alre...

Constable: Pro 8:1-36 - --1. The function of wisdom ch. 8
Chapter 8 is an apology (defense) of wisdom. The argument of thi...
