Thematic Bible
Proverbs 8:1 (show verse)
Doth not, wisdom, cry aloud? and, understanding, send forth her voice?
Proverbs 8:2 (show verse)
At the top of the high places above the way, at the place where paths meet, she taketh her stand:
Proverbs 8:3 (show verse)
Beside the gates, at the entrance of the city, - at the going in of the openings, she shouteth: -
Proverbs 8:4 (show verse)
Unto you, O men, I call, and, my voice, is unto the sons of men;
Proverbs 8:5 (show verse)
Understand, ye simple ones, shrewdness, and, ye dullards understand sense;
Proverbs 8:6 (show verse)
Hear, for, princely things, will I speak, and the opening of my lips shall be of equity;
Proverbs 8:7 (show verse)
For, faithfulness, shall my mouth softly utter, but, the abomination of my lips, shall be lawlessness;
Proverbs 8:8 (show verse)
In righteousness, shall be all the sayings of my mouth, nothing therein, shall be crafty or perverse;
Proverbs 8:9 (show verse)
All of them, shall be plain, to them who would understand, and just, to such as would gain knowledge.
Proverbs 8:10 (show verse)
Receive my correction, and not silver, and knowledge, rather than choicest gold.
Proverbs 8:11 (show verse)
For better is wisdom, than ornaments of coral, and, no delightful things, can equal her.
Proverbs 8:12 (show verse)
I, wisdom, inhabit shrewdness, - and, the knowledge of sagacious things, I gain.
Proverbs 8:13 (show verse)
The reverence of Yahweh, is to hate wickedness: pride, arrogance, and the way of wickedness; And a mouth of perverse things, do I hate.
Proverbs 8:14 (show verse)
Mine, are counsel, and effective working, I, am understanding, mine, is valour:
Proverbs 8:15 (show verse)
By me, kings reign, and dignitaries decree righteousness;
Proverbs 8:16 (show verse)
By me, rulers govern, and nobles - all the righteous judges:
Proverbs 8:17 (show verse)
I love, them who love me, and, they who diligently seek me, find me:
Proverbs 8:18 (show verse)
Riches and honour, are with me, lordly wealth, and righteousness;
Proverbs 8:19 (show verse)
Better is my fruit, than gold - yea fine gold, and mine increase, than choice silver;
Proverbs 8:20 (show verse)
In the way of righteousness, I march along, in the middle of the paths of justice:
Proverbs 8:21 (show verse)
That I may cause them who love me to inherit substance, and, their treasuries, I may fill.
Proverbs 8:22 (show verse)
Yahweh, had constituted me the beginning of his way, before his works, at the commencement of that time;
Proverbs 8:23 (show verse)
At the outset of the ages, had I been established, in advance of the antiquities of the earth;
Proverbs 8:24 (show verse)
When there was no resounding deep, I had been brought forth, when there were no fountains, abounding with water;
Proverbs 8:25 (show verse)
Ere yet the mountains had been settled, before the hills, had I been brought forth;
Proverbs 8:26 (show verse)
Or ever he had made the land and the wastes, or the top of the dry parts of the world:
Proverbs 8:27 (show verse)
When he prepared the heavens, there, was I! When he decreed a vault upon the face of the resounding deep;
Proverbs 8:28 (show verse)
When he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the resounding deep, waxed strong;
Proverbs 8:29 (show verse)
When he fixed for the sea its bound, that, the waters, should not go beyond his bidding, when he decreed the foundations of the earth: -
Proverbs 8:30 (show verse)
Then became I beside him, a firm and sure worker, then became I filled with delight, day by day, exulting before him on every occasion;
Proverbs 8:31 (show verse)
Exulting in the fruitful land of his earth, Yea, my fulness of delight, was with the sons of men.
Proverbs 8:32 (show verse)
Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, for how happy are they who, to my ways, pay regard!
Proverbs 8:33 (show verse)
Hear ye correction, and be wise, and do not neglect.
Proverbs 8:34 (show verse)
How happy the man that doth hearken to me, - keeping guard at my doors, day by day, watching at the posts of my gates;
Proverbs 8:35 (show verse)
For, he that findeth me, findeth life, and hath obtained favour from Yahweh;
Proverbs 8:36 (show verse)
But, he that misseth me, wrongeth his own soul, all who hate me, love death.