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Proverbs 8:14
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I possess good advice and sound wisdom;I have understanding and strength.
Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength.
I have good sense and advice, and I have understanding and power.
Counsel and sound wisdom belong to me; I possess understanding and might.
"Counsel is mine and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power and strength are mine.
"Advice is mine and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine.
Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
I haue counsell and wisedome: I am vnderstanding, and I haue strength.
Counsel is mine and sound wisdom;I am understanding, might is mine.
Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight and strength.
I am strong, and I offer sensible advice and sound judgment.
Good advice is mine, and common sense; I am insight, power is mine.
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength.
I have good advice and common sense to offer. I have understanding and power.
counsel and sound doctrine are mine; mine is understanding and might.
I make plans and carry them out. I have understanding, and I am strong.
Advice and sound judgment are mine; I am understanding, strength is mine.
Counsel and sound wisdom are mine; I am understanding; I have strength.
I can geue councell, and be a gyde: I haue vnderstondinge, I haue strength.
Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.
Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine.
Counsell is mine, and sound wisedome: I am vnderstanding, I haue strength.
Counsell is mine, and direction, I am vnderstanding, and I haue strength.
Counsel and safety are mine; prudence is mine, and strength is mine.
Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.
Counseil is myn, and equyte `is myn; prudence is myn, and strengthe `is myn.
Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.
Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding; I have strength.
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, I have strength.
I have teaching and wisdom. I have understanding and power.
I have good advice and sound wisdom; I have insight, I have strength.
Mine, are counsel, and effective working, I, am understanding, mine, is valour:
Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.
I have counsel and sound wisdom, I have insight, I have strength.
Mine [is] counsel and substance, I [am] understanding, I have might.
"Counsel is mine and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Counsel: Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 40:14, John 1:9, Romans 11:33, Romans 11:34, 1 Corinthians 1:24, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Colossians 2:3
sound: Proverbs 2:6, Proverbs 2:7, Romans 1:22
I have: Proverbs 24:5, Ecclesiastes 7:19, Ecclesiastes 9:16-18
Reciprocal: Job 12:13 - counsel Job 28:23 - General Psalms 16:7 - who hath Daniel 2:20 - for wisdom Daniel 2:23 - who hast Ephesians 1:11 - the counsel 2 Timothy 1:7 - a sound 2 Timothy 1:13 - the form
Cross-References
When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.
Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began, the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.
Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom,.... The words and sentiments in this and the following clause are the same with those in
Job 12:13; and scent to be taken from thence, which are spoken of God; and being here applied to Wisdom, show that a divine Person is meant; and are very applicable to him who the Wisdom of God, and the power of God; and on whom rests the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, of counsel, and of might, and of the fear of the Lord, 1 Corinthians 1:24. "Counsel" belongs to him, and is used and exercised by him, as concerned with the Father and Spirit, both in the words of nature and grace; to whom all the purposes and counsels of God are known; and who was consulted in the creation of man, and in his redemption, reconciliation, and salvation; the council of peace being between them both: and it belongs to him, and is used by him with respect to his people; he is council to them; he gives them counsel and advice, he being the wonderful Counsellor; he gave it in person when here on earth, both to sinners and to saints, and which continues on record: the Gospel is the counsel of Christ, and it is very suitable and seasonable, hearty, sincere, and faithful; is freely given, and, being taken, infallibly succeeds; see Revelation 3:18. And he is council for them; he appears for them in court; introduces their persons, and presents their petitions to his Father; pleads their cause, is their advocate, answers to all charges and accusations; and calls for and requires, in point of law and justice, every blessing of goodness for them. "Sound wisdom" belongs to Christ; "wisdom", from whence he has his name in this book; "sound" wisdom, such as is solid and substantial, real and true, in opposition to the wisdom of the world, to knowledge falsely so called, to carnal, sensual, and earthly wisdom. The Gospel may be meant, which is the wisdom of God in a mystery; sound doctrine, a form of sound words, the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus: both grace and glory may be intended, which are both in the gift of Christ; grace is that "wisdom" which he makes his people to "know in the hidden part"; and glory is that "sound wisdom" laid up for the righteous, the better and more enduring substance in heaven. The word here used signifies essence or substance; and some render it, "whatsoever is" d; whatever has a being, that is Christ's; all creatures are his, the earth and the fulness of it, and they that dwell therein;
I [am] understanding; essentially as a divine person; his understanding is infinite; there is no searching of it; it reaches to all persons and things: as Mediator, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding rests on him without measure, by which he was furnished for his prophetic office; as man, his understanding was amazing to all that knew him, and heard him. Christ not only has an understanding, but he is understanding itself; he is the fountain, author, and giver of understanding; of all the natural understanding there is in men; of the light of nature and reason, of those intellectual faculties which men are possessed of; and of all the spiritual understanding in divine things, which his people are partakers of, 1 John 5:20;
I have strength; as the mighty God; which appears in his creation of all things out of nothing, in his upholding all things by his power, and in his government of the world. As Mediator, he has the Spirit of might upon him; all power in heaven and earth is given him; his strength is manifest in the salvation of his people, when he came travelling in the greatness of it to save them; by fulfilling the law for them; by bearing their sins, and the punishment due to them; and by destroying all their enemies: and in his plucking them out of the hands of Satan, out of the burning, out of the mire and clay at conversion; in bearing and supporting them under all their burdens, afflictions, and temptations, and in preserving them safe to his kingdom and glory; and in giving them strength in the mean time to bear the cross, to withstand temptations and corruptions, to exercise the graces of the spirit, and perform the duties of religion.
d תושיה "essentia", Montanus, Tigurine version; "quicquid est", Junius Tremellius "realitas", Michaelis; "soliditas", Schultens.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 8:14. Counsel is mine — Direction how to act in all circumstances and on all occasions must come from wisdom: the foolish man can give no counsel, cannot show another how he is to act in the various changes and chances of life. The wise man alone can give this counsel; and he can give it only as continually receiving instruction from God: for this Divine wisdom can say, תושיה TUSHIYAH, substance, reality, essence, all belong to me: I am the Fountain whence all are derived. Man may be wise, and good, and prudent, and ingenious; but these he derives from me, and they are dependently in him. But in me all these are independently and essentially inherent.
And sound wisdom — See above. This is a totally false translation: תושיה tushiyah means essence, substance, reality; the source and substance of good. How ridiculous the support derived by certain authors from this translation in behalf of their system! See the writers on and quoters of Proverbs 8:0 (note).
I have strength. — Speaking still of wisdom, as communicating rays of its light to man, it enables him to bring every thing to his aid; to construct machines by which one man can do the work of hundreds. From it comes all mathematical learning, all mechanical knowledge; from it originally came the inclined plane, the wedge, the screw, the pulley, in all its multiplications; and the lever, in all its combinations and varieties, came from this wisdom. And as all these can produce prodigies of power, far surpassing all kinds of animal energy, and all the effects of the utmost efforts of muscular force; hence the maxim of Lord Bacon, "Knowledge is power," built on the maxim of the tushiyah itself; לי גבורה li geburah, MINE IS STRENGTH.
