Proverbs Chapter 8 verse 31 Holy Bible
Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.
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Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.
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rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights [were] with the sons of men.
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Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
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Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.
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Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights `are' with the sons of men.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 31. - Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth. Wisdom declares wherein she chiefly delighted, viz. in the world as the habitation of rational creatures. "And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Genesis 1:31); comp. Psalm 104:31, and see the eloquent account of Wisdom in the book so named (7:22-8:1). My delights were with the sons of men. Man, made in the image of God. is the principal object of creative Wisdom's pleasure; and her joy is fulfilled only in the Incarnation. When the Word became flesh, then was the end and design of creation exhibited, and the infinite love of God towards man made, as it were, visible and palpable. Septuagint, "Because he rejoiced when he completed the world (τὴν οἰκουμένην), and rejoiced in the children of men."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(31) Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth.--Rather, the fertile part. (Comp. Genesis 1:31, where the satisfaction of God with His creation is described; and Psalm 104:31.)My delights were with the sons of men.--Or rather, in them. (Comp. Genesis 3:8, where it would seem that the "Lord God" had been in the habit of assuming human form, and admitting man to His presence.) Such appearances as this, and that to Abraham in Genesis 18, and to Joshua in Joshua 5, were supposed by the Fathers to have been anticipations of the Incarnation of God the Son, who is here described under the name of Wisdom.
