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Proverbs 8:31
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I was rejoicing in his inhabited world,delighting in the children of Adam.
Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.
Rejoicing in the world, His earth, And having my delight in the sons of mankind.
enjoying the whole world, and delighted with all its people.
rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.
Rejoicing in the world, His inhabited earth, And having my delight in the sons of men.
Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.
And tooke my solace in the compasse of his earth: and my delite is with the children of men.
Rejoicing in the world, His earth,My delight is in the sons of men.
I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in the sons of men.
playing everywhere on his earth, and delighting to be with humankind.
rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights [were] with the sons of men.
I played in the world he made and enjoyed the people he put there.
Rejoicing in his habitable earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
happy with the world and pleased with the human race.
rejoicing in the world of his earth, and my delight was with the children of humankind.
rejoicing in the world, His earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.
As for the roude copase of his worlde, I make it ioyfull, for my delyte is to be amoge the children of men.
Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.
Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.
Playing in His habitable earth, and my delights are with the sons of men.
Reioycing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sonnes of men.
As for the rounde compasse of this worlde I make it ioyfull: for my delite is to be among the chyldren of men.
For he rejoiced when he had completed the world, and rejoiced among the children of men.
Rejoicing in his habitable earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.
and Y pleiede in the world; and my delices ben to be with the sones of men.
Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of man.
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights [were] with the sons of men.
Rejoicing in His inhabited world, And my delight was with the sons of men.
And how happy I was with the world he created; how I rejoiced with the human family!
I was happy in the world, His earth, and found joy in the sons of men.
rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.
Exulting in the fruitful land of his earth, Yea, my fulness of delight, was with the sons of men.
Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.
rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men.
Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights [are] with the sons of men.
Rejoicing in the world, His earth, And having my delight in the sons of men.
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and my: Psalms 16:3, Psalms 40:6-8, John 4:34, John 13:1, 2 Corinthians 8:9
Reciprocal: Psalms 139:17 - precious Ephesians 1:6 - in Hebrews 10:7 - Lo
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 Proverbs 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, Psalms 139:15 Isaiah 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.
w משחקת "ludens", V. L. Montanus, Piscator, Cocceius; "ludebam", Pagninus; "ludo", Tigurine version, Mercerus, Gejerus; "lusitans", Michaelis, Schultens. x "Laetificans in orbe habitabili terram ejus", Junius Tremellius, Amama "ridens, vel faciens ridere alios", Baynus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wisdom rejoices yet more in the world as inhabited by God’s rational creatures. (compare Isaiah 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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 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 their wants. The wisdom of God is in an especial manner manifested in his providence.
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.
