{"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/dbt/proverbs/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:07:50.748Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","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 give forth her voice?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"On the top of high places by the way, at the cross-paths she taketh her stand."},{"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, men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense."},{"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 palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing tortuous 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 equal to it."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find the knowledge which cometh of reflection."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"By me kings reign, and rulers make just decrees;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"by me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Riches and honour are with me; durable wealth and righteousness."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"I walk in the path of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will 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 eternity, 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 prepared the heavens I was there; when he ordained the circle upon the face of the deep;"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"when he established the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong;"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth:"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"then I was by him his nursling, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"And now, sons, hearken unto me, and 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 obtaineth favour of Jehovah;"},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 8 (DBT)","markdown":"[Proverbs 8](https://primebible.com/dbt/proverbs/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/proverbs/8 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}