Thematic Bible

Proverbs 8:1

Doth not, wisdom, cry aloud? and, understanding, send forth her voice?

Proverbs 8:2

At the top of the high places above the way, at the place where paths meet, she taketh her stand:

Proverbs 8:3

Beside the gates, at the entrance of the city, - at the going in of the openings, she shouteth: -

Proverbs 8:4

Unto you, O men, I call, and, my voice, is unto the sons of men;

Proverbs 8:5

Understand, ye simple ones, shrewdness, and, ye dullards understand sense;

Proverbs 8:6

Hear, for, princely things, will I speak, and the opening of my lips shall be of equity;

Proverbs 8:7

For, faithfulness, shall my mouth softly utter, but, the abomination of my lips, shall be lawlessness;

Proverbs 8:8

In righteousness, shall be all the sayings of my mouth, nothing therein, shall be crafty or perverse;

Proverbs 8:9

All of them, shall be plain, to them who would understand, and just, to such as would gain knowledge.

Proverbs 8:10

Receive my correction, and not silver, and knowledge, rather than choicest gold.

Proverbs 8:11

For better is wisdom, than ornaments of coral, and, no delightful things, can equal her.

Proverbs 8:12

I, wisdom, inhabit shrewdness, - and, the knowledge of sagacious things, I gain.

Proverbs 8:13

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

Mine, are counsel, and effective working, I, am understanding, mine, is valour:

Proverbs 8:15

By me, kings reign, and dignitaries decree righteousness;

Proverbs 8:16

By me, rulers govern, and nobles - all the righteous judges:

Proverbs 8:17

I love, them who love me, and, they who diligently seek me, find me:

Proverbs 8:18

Riches and honour, are with me, lordly wealth, and righteousness;

Proverbs 8:19

Better is my fruit, than gold - yea fine gold, and mine increase, than choice silver;

Proverbs 8:20

In the way of righteousness, I march along, in the middle of the paths of justice:

Proverbs 8:21

That I may cause them who love me to inherit substance, and, their treasuries, I may fill.

Proverbs 8:22

Yahweh, had constituted me the beginning of his way, before his works, at the commencement of that time;

Proverbs 8:23

At the outset of the ages, had I been established, in advance of the antiquities of the earth;

Proverbs 8:24

When there was no resounding deep, I had been brought forth, when there were no fountains, abounding with water;

Proverbs 8:25

Ere yet the mountains had been settled, before the hills, had I been brought forth;

Proverbs 8:26

Or ever he had made the land and the wastes, or the top of the dry parts of the world:

Proverbs 8:27

When he prepared the heavens, there, was I! When he decreed a vault upon the face of the resounding deep;

Proverbs 8:28

When he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the resounding deep, waxed strong;

Proverbs 8:29

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

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

Exulting in the fruitful land of his earth, Yea, my fulness of delight, was with the sons of men.

Proverbs 8:32

Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, for how happy are they who, to my ways, pay regard!

Proverbs 8:33

Hear ye correction, and be wise, and do not neglect.

Proverbs 8:34

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

For, he that findeth me, findeth life, and hath obtained favour from Yahweh;

Proverbs 8:36

But, he that misseth me, wrongeth his own soul, all who hate me, love death.