Proverbs 8:3

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Beside the gates leading into the city,at the main entrance, she cries out:

Hebrew Names Version
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entry doors, she cries aloud:

King James Version
She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

English Standard Version
beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:

New Century Version
Beside the city gates, at the entrances into the city, she calls out:

New English Translation
beside the gates opening into the city, at the entrance of the doorways she cries out:

Amplified Bible
Beside the gates, at the entrance to the city, At the entrance of the doors, she cries out:

New American Standard Bible
Beside the gates, at the opening to the city, At the entrance of the doors, she cries out:

World English Bible
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entry doors, she cries aloud:

Geneva Bible (1587)
She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,

Legacy Standard Bible
Beside the gates, at the opening to the city,At the entrance of the doors, she makes a shout:

Berean Standard Bible
Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:

Contemporary English Version
She stands by the city gate where everyone enters the city, and she shouts:

Complete Jewish Bible
by the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries aloud:

Darby Translation
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud.

Easy-to-Read Version
She is near the entrance to the city, calling from the open gates.

George Lamsa Translation
She cries at the gates, at the entrance of the city; she cries aloud, saying,

Good News Translation
At the entrance to the city, beside the gates, she calls:

Lexham English Bible
Beside gates, before towns, at the entrance of doors, she cries out:

Literal Translation
beside the gates; at the mouth of the city, at the doors, she cries.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
doth she not crie before the whole cite, & in the gates where men go out & in?

American Standard Version
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:

Bible in Basic English
Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:

King James Version (1611)
She cryeth at the gates, at the entrie of the citie, at the comming in at the doores.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
She cryeth at the gates of the citie, at the entrye of the doores:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For she sits by the gates of princes, and sings in the entrances, saying,

English Revised Version
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and it stondith bisidis the yate of the citee, in thilke closyngis, and spekith, and seith, A!

Update Bible Version
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she cries aloud:

Webster's Bible Translation
She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors.

New King James Version
She cries out by the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entrance of the doors:

New Living Translation
By the gates at the entrance to the town, on the road leading in, she cries aloud,

New Life Bible
Beside the gates in front of the town, at the open doors, she cries out,

New Revised Standard
beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Beside the gates, at the entrance of the city, - at the going in of the openings, she shouteth: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying:

Revised Standard Version
beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:

Young's Literal Translation
At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she crieth aloud,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Beside the gates, at the opening to the city, At the entrance of the doors, she cries out:

Contextual Overview

¹ Do you hear Lady Wisdom calling? Can you hear Madame Insight raising her voice? She's taken her stand at First and Main, at the busiest intersection. Right in the city square where the traffic is thickest, she shouts, "You—I'm talking to all of you, everyone out here on the streets! Listen, you idiots—learn good sense! You blockheads—shape up! Don't miss a word of this—I'm telling you how to live well, I'm telling you how to live at your best. My mouth chews and savors and relishes truth— I can't stand the taste of evil! You'll only hear true and right words from my mouth; not one syllable will be twisted or skewed. You'll recognize this as true—you with open minds; truth-ready minds will see it at once. Prefer my life-disciplines over chasing after money, and God-knowledge over a lucrative career. For Wisdom is better than all the trappings of wealth; nothing you could wish for holds a candle to her.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 22:9, Luke 14:21-23, John 18:20, Acts 5:20

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 3:2 - the streets Jeremiah 5:1 - seek Jeremiah 7:2 - Stand John 7:37 - and cried

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open. Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:24
The floodwaters took over for 150 days.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She crieth at the gates,.... Of the temple, or of the city, where the courts of judicature were, and persons met on civil accounts; and where people were continually passing and repassing;

at the entry of the city; meeting those that came out of the country to the city upon trade and business;

at the coming in at the doors; of the temple, or city, or private houses; all these expressions denote the publicness of the Gospel ministry, both by Christ himself, who spake openly to the world, always taught in the synagogues and temple, and in secret said nothing; and who ordered his disciples to preach what they heard and received from him upon the house tops, John 18:20; so did the Apostle Paul,

Acts 20:20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The full enumeration of localities points to the publicity and openness of Wisdom’s teaching (see Proverbs 1:20 note), as contrasted with the stealth and secrecy and darkness which shroud the harlot’s enticements Proverbs 7:9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 8:3. She crieth at the gates — This might be well applied to the preaching of Jesus Christ and his apostles, and their faithful successors in the Christian ministry. He went to the temple, and proclaimed the righteousness of the Most High: he did the same in the synagogues, on the mountains, by the sea-side, in the villages, in the streets of the cities, and in private houses. His disciples followed his track: in the same way, and in the same spirit, they proclaimed the unsearchable riches of Christ. God's wisdom in the hearts of his true ministers directs them to go and to seek sinners. There are, it is true, temples, synagogues, churches, chapels, c. but hundreds of thousands never frequent them, and therefore do not hear the voice of truth: wisdom, therefore, must go to them, if she wishes them to receive her instructions. Hence the zealous ministers of Christ go still to the highways and hedges, to the mountains and plains, to the ships and the cottages, to persuade sinners to turn from the error of their ways, and accept that redemption which was procured by the sacrificial offering of Jesus Christ.