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Proverbs 1:19-21
Amplified Bible
Proverbs 1:19-21
Amplified Bible
19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain;
Greed takes away the lives of its possessors.(A)
Wisdom Warns
20
[a]Wisdom shouts in the street,
She raises her voice in the markets;
21
She calls out at the head of the noisy streets [where large crowds gather];
At the entrance of the city gates she speaks her words:
Footnotes
- Proverbs 1:20 Wisdom is personified as a woman in vv 20-33 and speaks, in the first person, of godly wisdom. Read the word “wisdom” as “the wisdom of God” and see the wonderful power of this book.
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