Proverbs 8:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 29:7 : 7 When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,
  • Matt 22:9 : 9 Go then to the cross-roads, and get all those whom you see to come to the bride-feast.
  • Luke 14:21-23 : 21 And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body. 22 And the servant said, Lord, your orders have been done, and still there is room. 23 And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and the fields, and make them come in, so that my house may be full.
  • John 18:20 : 20 Jesus made answer, I said things openly to the world at all times; I have given my teaching in the Synagogues and in the Temple to which all the Jews come; and I have said nothing secretly.
  • Acts 5:20 : 20 Go, take your place in the Temple and give the people all the teaching about this Life.

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  • Prov 1:20-21
    2 verses
    88%

    20 Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

    21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

  • Prov 8:1-2
    2 verses
    85%

    1 Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?

    2 At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

  • Prov 9:2-4
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    82%

    2 She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.

    3 She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,

    4 Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

  • Prov 9:13-16
    4 verses
    80%

    13 The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

    14 Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

    15 Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

    16 Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

  • Prov 7:8-13
    6 verses
    78%

    8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

    9 At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.

    10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

    11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

    12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

    13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

  • 34 Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

  • 4 I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.

  • 26 And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

  • 31 Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

  • 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

  • 7 When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

  • Jer 17:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19 This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;

    20 And say to them, Give ear to the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all the people of Jerusalem who come in by these doors:

  • 6 Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

  • 23 Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    69%

    17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

    18 She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

  • 2 Take your place in the doorway of the Lord's house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who come inside these doors to give worship to the Lord.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    69%

    25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

    26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

    27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

  • Song 3:2-3
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    2 I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

    3 The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

  • Ps 118:19-20
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    19 Let the doors of righteousness be open to me; I will go in and give praise to the Lord.

    20 This is the door of the Lord's house; the workers of righteousness will go in through it.

  • 18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

  • 7 As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

  • 16 Then a wise woman got up on the wall, and crying out from the town, said, Give ear, give ear; say now to Joab, Come near, so that I may have talk with you.

  • 26 Then at the dawn of day the woman came, and, falling down at the door of the man's house where her master was, was stretched there till it was light.

  • 4 When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;

  • 21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

  • 2 She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.

  • Ps 55:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

    11 Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

  • 7 The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

  • 8 Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

  • 10 Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

  • 9 If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.