This passage opens with the question, "Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice?"
I get it that this is a rhetorical question; yet, I find myself pondering it as if I need to gather evidence for a yes answer. Is wisdom calling? Or, should I be asking whether I'm listening.
This proverb reminds us that wisdom is all around us as we travel-on the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads. And wisdom is with us at the end of that trip to town--beside the gates and at the entrance of the portals.
Wisdom has a message for us, a message we need to heed. Wisdom can tell us what we need to know in order to live our lives the way God intended for them to be lived.
Compare the description of wisdom, her presence and her message to the gospel passage for this Sunday, "I still have many things to say to you.....When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth..."
Note, but no commentary: Wisdom is perceived as feminine in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament, the Spirit is masculine. Go figure.
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