Thematic Bible

Proverbs 8:1

Shall not wisdom call, and understanding give her voice?

Proverbs 8:2

She stood upon the head of the heights, upon the way of the house of the beaten paths.

Proverbs 8:3

At the hand of the gates, at the mouth of the city from the coming in of the doors she will cry:

Proverbs 8:4

To you, ye men, I shall call, and my voice is to the sons of man.

Proverbs 8:5

Understand craftiness, ye simple: and ye foolish, understand the heart

Proverbs 8:6

Hear ye, for I will speak dear things; and the openings of my lips uprightnesses.

Proverbs 8:7

For my palate shall meditate the truth, and evil is the abomination of my lips.

Proverbs 8:8

In justice are all the sayings of my mouth; nothing in them crooked and perverse.

Proverbs 8:9

All of them straight to him understanding, and right to those finding knowledge.

Proverbs 8:10

Receive my instruction and not silver and knowledge above tried gold.

Proverbs 8:11

For wisdom is good above pearls, and all delights shall not be made equal with her.

Proverbs 8:12

I wisdom dwelt with prudence, and I shall find the knowledge of machinations.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of Jehovah hates evil: pride and haughtiness, and the evil way, and the mouth of perverseness I hated.

Proverbs 8:14

To me counsel and wisdom: I am understanding; to me is strength.

Proverbs 8:15

By me kings shall reign, and princes shall decree justice.

Proverbs 8:16

By me chiefs shall have dominion, and nobles all judging the earth.

Proverbs 8:17

I loved those loving me: and they seeking me shall find me.

Proverbs 8:18

Riches and honor are with me; splendid riches and justice.

Proverbs 8:19

My fruit is good above gold, and above pure gold; and my gain above tried silver.

Proverbs 8:20

I shall go in the way of justice, in the midst of the beaten paths of judgment:

Proverbs 8:21

To cause those loving me to inherit existence: and I will fill their treasures.

Proverbs 8:22

Jehovah set me up the beginning of his way, before his works from ancient time.

Proverbs 8:23

From forever I was knit together, from the beginning, from the first of the earth.

Proverbs 8:24

In no depths was I begun; in no fountains abundant in waters.

Proverbs 8:25

Before the mountains were settled; before the hills I had a beginning:

Proverbs 8:26

Yet he made not the earth and the fields, and the head of the clods of the habitable globe.

Proverbs 8:27

In his preparing the heavens I was there: in his inscribing a circle upon the face of the deep:

Proverbs 8:28

In his making firm the clouds from above: in his strengthening the fountains of the deep:

Proverbs 8:29

In his setting his law to the sea, and the waters shall not pass by his mouth; in his making firm the foundations of the earth:

Proverbs 8:30

And I shall be near him the builder, and I shall be a delight of day, day, smiling before him in all time

Proverbs 8:31

Smiling in the habitable globe of his earth; and my delight with the sons of man.

Proverbs 8:32

And now ye sons, hear to me: and the happy shall watch my ways.

Proverbs 8:33

Hear ye instructions, and be wise, and ye shall not reject it

Proverbs 8:34

Happy the man hearing to me, to watch at my doors day, day; to watch the door posts of my entrances.

Proverbs 8:35

For he finding me, the finding of life, and he shall bnng forth acceptance from Jehovah.

Proverbs 8:36

And he sinning against me did violence to his soul: all hating me loved death.