Thematic Bible
Proverbs 8:1 (show verse)
Does not wisdom call, and understanding raise its voice?
Proverbs 8:2 (show verse)
{Atop the heights} beside the road, at the crossroads she stands.
Proverbs 8:3 (show verse)
Beside gates, before towns, [at the] entrance of doors, she cries out:
Proverbs 8:4 (show verse)
"To you, O {people}, I call, and my cry is to the children of humankind.
Proverbs 8:5 (show verse)
Learn prudence, O simple ones; fools, learn {intelligence}.
Proverbs 8:6 (show verse)
Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips.
Proverbs 8:7 (show verse)
My mouth will utter truth, and wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips.
Proverbs 8:8 (show verse)
All sayings of my mouth [are] in righteousness; none of them are twisted and crooked.
Proverbs 8:9 (show verse)
All of them are straight to him who understands, and upright to those who find knowledge.
Proverbs 8:10 (show verse)
Take my teaching and not silver; may you choose knowledge rather than choice gold.
Proverbs 8:11 (show verse)
For wisdom is better than jewels, and all desires shall not compare with her.
Proverbs 8:12 (show verse)
I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 8:13 (show verse)
The fear of Yahweh [is] hatred of evil, pride, and arrogance and an evil way. And I hate a mouth of perversity.
Proverbs 8:14 (show verse)
{Advice and sound judgment} are mine; I am understanding, {strength is mine}.
Proverbs 8:15 (show verse)
By me kings reign, and rulers decree righteousness.
Proverbs 8:16 (show verse)
By me rulers rule, and nobles--all judges of righteousness.
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)
Fortune and glory [are] with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.
Proverbs 8:19 (show verse)
My fruit is better than gold, even refined gold, and my yield than choice silver.
Proverbs 8:20 (show verse)
In the way of righteousness I walk, in the midst of paths of justice,
Proverbs 8:21 (show verse)
[in order] to endow those who love me [with] wealth, and I will fill their treasuries.
Proverbs 8:22 (show verse)
"Yahweh possessed me, [the] first of his ways, before his acts {of old}.
Proverbs 8:23 (show verse)
From eternity, I was set up from [the] first, from the beginning of the earth.
Proverbs 8:24 (show verse)
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs of {abounding} water.
Proverbs 8:25 (show verse)
Before mountains had been shaped, before hills, I was brought forth.
Proverbs 8:26 (show verse)
When he had not yet made earth and fields, or the first dust of the world,
Proverbs 8:27 (show verse)
{when he established} the heavens, there I [was], {when he drew} a circle upon the face of the deep,
Proverbs 8:28 (show verse)
{when he made} skies from above, when he founded fountains of the deep,
Proverbs 8:29 (show verse)
{when he assigned} his limits to the sea, that waters shall not transgress his {command}, {when he marked} the foundations of the earth,
Proverbs 8:30 (show verse)
I was {beside} him, a master workman, and I was delighting day by day, rejoicing before him {always},
Proverbs 8:31 (show verse)
rejoicing in the world of his earth, and my delight [was] with the children of humankind.
Proverbs 8:32 (show verse)
"And now, children, listen to me; happy [are] those who will keep my ways.
Proverbs 8:33 (show verse)
Hear teaching and be wise; do not neglect [it].
Proverbs 8:34 (show verse)
Happy [is the] person who listens to me, [in order] to keep watch at my doors day by day, [in order] to guard the frames of my entrances.
Proverbs 8:35 (show verse)
For he who finds me [is] he who finds life, and he obtains favor from Yahweh.
Proverbs 8:36 (show verse)
But he who misses me injures himself. All those who hate me love death."