{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/asv/proverbs/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T15:20:29.475Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":8,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":7,"nextChapter":9,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":36},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"By me kings reign, And princes decree justice."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"By me princes rule, And nobles, even all the judges of the earth."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Riches and honor are with me; Yea , durable wealth and righteousness."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their treasuries."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"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;"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Then I was by him, as a master workman; And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him,"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"Now therefore, my'sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 8 (ASV)","markdown":"[Proverbs 8](https://primebible.com/asv/proverbs/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/proverbs/8 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}