Proverbs 8:31

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about wisdom’s legacy:

Proverbs 8:31 (NASBStr)

Rejoicing in the world, His earth,

And having my delight in the sons of men.

Proverbs 8:31 (ESV)

rejoicing in his inhabited world

and delighting in the children of man.

Solomon, in chapter eight, is describing the benefits of following wisdom.   The entire book of Proverbs follows that theme.   In the above proverb Solomon continues to address the legacy of wisdom.   Wisdom was with God in the beginning.   Wisdom was there when God created the earth.  In that creation Wisdom could have rejoiced and delighted in many marvelous aspects of God's work.   Mountains that cause us to lose our breath did not capture Wisdom's delight.   Vast oceans of water and depths of aquatic life did not.   The animal world with all its variety and variance did not.   It was man who was the apple of Wisdom's eye.  The word above for "delight" in the Hebrew means Wisdom "plays" with the sons of men.   God takes such delight in man that He sends wisdom to interact in a playful manner.   We can rest and relax in the fact that God so loves us that He provides us with Wisdom in a delightful manner as we fear Him.   The relationship with Wisdom and man is not one of constraint, or compulsion, or coarseness.  The relationship with Wisdom is exciting and delightful.    We will know when we have God's Wisdom when we have that delight.   It is not harsh.  God choose us over all of creation to dance with in an intimate and delightful manner.