Proverbs 8:2
New International Version
At the highest point along the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand;

New Living Translation
On the hilltop along the road, she takes her stand at the crossroads.

English Standard Version
On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand;

Berean Standard Bible
On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand.

King James Bible
She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

New King James Version
She takes her stand on the top of the high hill, Beside the way, where the paths meet.

New American Standard Bible
On top of the heights beside the way, Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;

NASB 1995
On top of the heights beside the way, Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;

NASB 1977
On top of the heights beside the way, Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;

Legacy Standard Bible
At the top of the heights upon the way, Where the pathways meet, she takes her stand;

Amplified Bible
On the top of the heights beside the way, Where the paths meet, wisdom takes her stand;

Christian Standard Bible
At the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads, she takes her stand.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
At the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads, she takes her stand.

American Standard Version
On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For on top of the high places is wisdom; between the roads and upon the side of the paths she stands.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For she is on lofty eminences, and stands in the midst of the ways.

Contemporary English Version
as she stands at the crossroads and on every hill.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths.

English Revised Version
In the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she standeth;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[Wisdom] takes its stand on high ground, by the wayside where the roads meet,

Good News Translation
On the hilltops near the road and at the crossroads she stands.

International Standard Version
On top of the highest places along the road she stands where the roads meet.

JPS Tanakh 1917
In the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;

Literal Standard Version
At the head of high places by the way, | She has stood between the paths,

Majority Standard Bible
On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand.

New American Bible
On the top of the heights along the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand;

NET Bible
At the top of the elevated places along the way, at the intersection of the paths she takes her stand;

New Revised Standard Version
On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand;

New Heart English Bible
On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.

Webster's Bible Translation
She standeth on the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

World English Bible
On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.

Young's Literal Translation
At the head of high places by the way, Between the paths she hath stood,

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Context
The Excellence of Wisdom
1Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice? 2On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand. 3Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:…

Cross References
Proverbs 9:3
She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city.

Proverbs 9:14
She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,


Treasury of Scripture

She stands in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

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Proverbs 8
1. the fame
6. and evidence of wisdom
10. The excellence
12. the nature
15. the power
18. the riches
22. and the eternity of wisdom
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(2) She standeth in the top of high places.--i.e., in the higher parts of the city, where her voice will best be heard.

By the way . . .--She goes everywhere where she may find the greatest concourse of people, "God not being willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2Peter 3:9). So the apostles made large centres of population such as Antioch, Ephesus, or Corinth, the headquarters of their missionary enterprise.

Verse 2. - She standeth in the top of high places, by the way. She takes her stand, not in thievish corners of the streets, like the harlot, but in the most open and elevated parts of the city, where she may be best seen and heard by all who pass by (see Proverbs 1:21, and note there). In the places of the paths; i.e. where many paths converge, and where people meet from different quarters.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
On the heights
בְּרֹאשׁ־ (bə·rōš-)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7218: The head

overlooking
עֲלֵי־ (‘ă·lê-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the road,
דָ֑רֶךְ (ḏā·reḵ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

at the crossroads
בֵּ֖ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

she takes her stand.
נִצָּֽבָה׃ (niṣ·ṣā·ḇāh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5324: To take one's stand, stand


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