{"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/drb/proverbs/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T09:20:28.359Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","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 aloud, and prudence put forth her voice ? "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying: "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"O little ones, understand subtilty, and ye unwise, take notice. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse in them. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"11For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I wisdom dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The fear of the Lord hateth evil: I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things, "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment, "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out: "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before the hills I was brought forth: "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths: "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters: "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when be balanced the foundations of the earth; "},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times; "},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men. "},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"Now therefore, ye children, hear me: 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, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. "},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord: "},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 8 (DRB)","markdown":"[Proverbs 8](https://primebible.com/drb/proverbs/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/proverbs/8 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}