Thematic Bible
Proverbs 8:1 (show verse)
Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice?
Proverbs 8:2 (show verse)
On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.
Proverbs 8:3 (show verse)
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she cries aloud:
Proverbs 8:4 (show verse)
To you, O men, I call. And my voice is to the sons of men.
Proverbs 8:5 (show verse)
O ye simple, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.
Proverbs 8:6 (show verse)
Hear, for I will speak excellent things. And the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Proverbs 8:7 (show verse)
For my mouth shall utter truth. And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Proverbs 8:8 (show verse)
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
Proverbs 8:9 (show verse)
They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.
Proverbs 8:10 (show verse)
Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Proverbs 8:11 (show verse)
For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Proverbs 8:12 (show verse)
I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling, and find out knowledge [and] discretion.
Proverbs 8:13 (show verse)
The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 8:14 (show verse)
Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge. I am understanding, I have might.
Proverbs 8:15 (show verse)
By me kings reign, and rulers decree justice.
Proverbs 8:16 (show verse)
By me rulers rule, and ranking men, [even] all the judges of the earth.
Proverbs 8:17 (show verse)
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.
Proverbs 8:18 (show verse)
Riches and honor are with me, durable wealth and righteousness.
Proverbs 8:19 (show verse)
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold, and my revenue than choice silver.
Proverbs 8:20 (show verse)
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice,
Proverbs 8:21 (show verse)
that I may cause those who love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their treasuries.
Proverbs 8:22 (show verse)
LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Proverbs 8:23 (show verse)
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was,
Proverbs 8:24 (show verse)
when there were no depths. I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water,
Proverbs 8:25 (show verse)
before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought forth
Proverbs 8:26 (show verse)
while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
Proverbs 8:27 (show verse)
When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
Proverbs 8:28 (show verse)
when he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong,
Proverbs 8:29 (show verse)
when he gave to the sea its bound that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
Proverbs 8:30 (show verse)
then I was by him, a master workman. And I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him,
Proverbs 8:31 (show verse)
rejoicing in his habitable earth. And my delight was with the sons of men.
Proverbs 8:32 (show verse)
Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me. For blessed are those who keep my ways.
Proverbs 8:33 (show verse)
Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.
Proverbs 8:34 (show verse)
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Proverbs 8:35 (show verse)
For he who finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of LORD.
Proverbs 8:36 (show verse)
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.