Proverbs Chapter 8 verse 4 Holy Bible
Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.
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I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.
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Unto you, men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man:
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Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
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"To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
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`Unto you, O men, I call, And my voice `is' unto the sons of men.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 4-11. - She summons various classes of persons to attend to her, showing how trustworthy she is, and how precious her instruction. Verse 4. - Unto you, O men, I call. "Men," ishim (אִישִׁים); equivalent to ἄνδρες, viri, men in the highest sense, who have some wisdom and experience, but need further enlightenment (Isaiah 53:3; Psalm 141:4). The sons of man; בְּנֵי אָדָם, "children of Adam;" equivalent to ἄνθρωποι, homines, the general kind of men, who are taken up with material interests. St. Gregory notes ('Moral ,' 27:6) that persons (heroines) of perfect life are in Scripture sometimes called "men" (viri). And again, "Scripture is wont to call those persons 'men' who follow the ways of the Lord with firm and steady steps. Whence Wisdom says in the Proverbs, 'Unto you, O men, I call.' As if she were saying openly, 'I do not speak to women, but to men; because they who are of an unstable mind cannot at all understand my words'" ('Moral.,' 28:12, Oxford transl.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) O men--i.e., "great ones;" "sons of man" are those of inferior rank; comp. the Hebrew of Isaiah 2:9, where the same words are translated "great man," and "mean man." Comp. the generality of the invitation of Psalm 49:2.