Proverbs 5:1-14
Some of The Consequences of Adultery
Proverbs 5:15-23
Encouragement to Moral Purity
Proverbs 6:1-11
Warning Against Laziness
Proverbs 6:12-19
The Description Of a Person Who Stirs up Strife
Proverbs 6:20-35
Instruction About The Tragedy of Adultery
Proverbs 7:1-9
The Son is Exhorted to Heed The Father’s Teaching
Proverbs 7:10-18
How Naive Can You Get?
Proverbs 7:19-27
Lives Are Easily Wrecked by Immorality
Proverbs 8:1-11
Wisdom Offers Her Service to All
Proverbs 8:12-21
Characteristics of Wisdom That Can Become Ours
Proverbs 8:22-36
The Involvement of Wisdom in Creation
Proverbs 9:1-12
The Way of Wisdom
Proverbs 9:13-18
The Way of Folly
Proverbs 10:1-10
How to Redeem The Time
Proverbs 10:11-16
Contrasts in Life
Proverbs 10:17-24
Discipline Brings Quality to Life
Proverbs 10:25-32
The Contrast of Righteousness And Wickedness
Proverbs 11:1-5
The Lord Hates Dishonesty And Pride
Proverbs 11:6-11
A Hyprocrite is Ready to Falsely Accuse
Proverbs 11:12-15
A Discussion of Community Relationships
Proverbs 11:16-21
Wealth is Very Inferior to Honor
Wisdom Offers Her Service to All
Proverbs 8:1–11
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We try to hide our lack of wisdom. Like the man who bought a yacht. His wife was nervous because he had no experience sailing. But he knew he could handle it and so for weeks he practiced in the harbor before taking it out to sea. Finally, he talked his nervous wife into going on … More
In chapter seven we read how the adulteress went out in the streets to seduce the young man. Now we see how wisdom, like a virtuous woman, is seen crying in the streets offering services to all who will receive them:
Wisdom speaks openly in the high places and gates. Wisdom does not speak with a seductive voice under the cover of darkness; she stands in the higher parts of the city and goes to every place where people in numbers are apt to be found. She works at the intersections and before the large gates of the city. She is not willing that any should perish. ( II Pet 3:9). She pleads with the simple and the fool to direct their hearts. From the mouth of wisdom proceeds only those things that are right and true. The speech of wisdom is contrasted with the speech of the adulterous woman in verse 8. The words of wisdom are to those who practice hearing them of greater value than silver, gold, or jewels.
Application
Even though wisdom is available to every person many turn it down. That is why it is important for me to have a plan for gaining wisdom and discipline myself to follow that plan.
Proverbs 8:1-11 (English Standard Version)
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