● Does the description of “Wisdom” in Proverbs 8:22-31 actually apply to Jesus, the Son of God?

Persons who accept only the Hebrew Scriptures or who do not believe in Jesus Christ often explain Proverbs 8:22-31 as applying to Wisdom personified only in some figurative way.

However, it is agreed by producers of the Greek text of the Christian Scriptures that Revelation 3:14 quoted or borrowed its Greek words from Proverbs 8:22.e

As translated by Charles Thomson from the Greek Septuagint, Proverbs 8:22 reads: “The Lord created me, the beginning of His ways, for His works.”

Bible Highlights Proverbs 1:1–31:31

Read Proverbs 5:1–9:18.

At Proverbs 8:22-24 we read: “The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.

As Trinitarian scholar Edmund J. Fortman writes: “Paul applied it [Proverbs 8:22-31] to the Son of God.

The first nine chapters Pr 1-9 of Proverbs provide counsel as from a loving father to his son.

Having read this article, you may also wish to read Proverbs, chapters 1 through 9, on which it is based.

This one, speaking under the personification of “wisdom,” says, as recorded at Proverbs 8:22, 23: “Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the earliest of his achievements of long ago . . . from times earlier than the earth.”

 6. What amazing insight does the Bible give us respecting Jesus as a worker?

⁶ Proverbs chapter 8 also tells us something about when Jesus commenced as a worker.

Surely this delightful description of Jesus breathes the very spirit of a fine relationship and a ready communication.​—John 1:1-3, 14, 18; see also Proverbs 8:22, 30, 31.

They were in full union with each other.​—Prov. 8:22, 30; Gen. 1:26; John 11:42; 14:10, 11.

He was foremost among the spirit sons of God who shouted for joy at the creation of the earth, as we read at Proverbs 8:22-31. (John 1:2, 3)

Solomon wrote down Jesus’ prehuman autobiography as a spirit son. (Prov. 8:22-31)

 4. What enlightenment on this is given at Proverbs 8:22-31?

⁴ This happy relationship is also beautifully described at Proverbs 8:22-31.

What enlightenment on this is given at Proverbs 8:22-31?

When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a horizon upon the face of the surging waters, when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the surging waters to be strong, when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, then I came to be beside him as a master worker and I came to be what he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men.”—Prov. 8:12, 22-31.

What does wisdom personified have to say with reference to creation, in Proverbs 8:12, 22-31?

8:22-36 79

8:22, 30 186

Jesus’ prehuman existence extended back before humankind or even the earth itself came into being. (John 1:1-3; Prov. 8:22-36, AS)

A reliable record was being established by which men would be able to identify the one providing a ransom for them. (Prov. 8:22-36; John 8:58, NW)

8:22-30 101

8:22, 23, 29-31 177

8:22-31 127

8:22, 27, 30 661

● What Has Religion Done for Mankind? on page 37, quotes Proverbs 8:22-31 according to the Moffatt translation, wherein it refers to Jehovah’s only-begotten Son as “his foster child”.

Because Jehovah filled his only-begotten Son with wisdom, the Son became the very symbol of wisdom and he speaks of himself as Wisdom in Proverbs chapter 8.