{"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/erv/proverbs/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T22:05:55.095Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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":"In 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 subtilty; and, ye fools, be ye 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 her."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I wisdom have made subtilty my dwelling, and find out knowledge and discretion."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The fear of the LORD 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 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 honour are with me; yea, durable riches 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 judgment:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their treasuries."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"The LORD 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, or ever 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 sides 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 favour of the LORD."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 8 (ERV)","markdown":"[Proverbs 8](https://primebible.com/erv/proverbs/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/proverbs/8 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}