She is calling out on the busy street corners. She is near the city gates trying to get people to listen to her. \{Wisdom says:\}
Proverbs 1:20 - Easy To Read Version Listen! Wisdom {\cf2\super [2]} is trying to teach people. She (Wisdom) is shouting in the streets and in the market place. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wisdom crieth without; She uttereth her voice in the streets: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Wisdom cries aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the markets; American Standard Version (1901) Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; Common English Bible Wisdom shouts in the street; in the public square she raises her voice. Catholic Public Domain Version Wisdom forewarns far and wide; she bestows her voice in the streets. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets: |
She is calling out on the busy street corners. She is near the city gates trying to get people to listen to her. \{Wisdom says:\}
Wisdom built her house. She put the seven columns {\cf2\super [10]} in it.
And then she sent her servants to town to invite people to come up to the hill in the city \{and eat with her\}. She said,
Go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the front of the Potsherd Gate. {\cf2\super [156]} Take some of the elders (leaders) of the people and some priests with you. At that place, tell them the things that I tell you.
Jesus went to the town where he grew up. Jesus taught the people in the synagogue, {\cf2\super [191]} and the people were amazed. The people said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and this power to do miracles {\cf2\super [192]} ?
This is why the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send prophets and apostles {\cf2\super [216]} to them. Some of my prophets and apostles will be killed by evil men. Others will be treated badly.’
The last day of the festival came. It was the most important day. On that day Jesus stood and said with a loud voice, “If a person is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
But Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God to those people that God has called (chosen)—Jews and Greeks (non-Jews).
It is God that has made you part of Christ Jesus. Christ has become wisdom for us from God. Christ is the reason we are right with God and have freedom from sin; Christ is the reason we are holy. {\cf2\super [10]}