{"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/ylt/proverbs/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T08:59:53.911Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":8,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":7,"nextChapter":9,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":36},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Doth not wisdom call? And understanding give forth her voice?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"At the head of high places by the way, Between the paths she hath stood,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she crieth aloud,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Unto you, O men, I call, And my voice is unto the sons of men."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips is uprightness."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"All of them are plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For better is wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Mine is counsel and substance, I am understanding, I have might."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"By me kings reign, and princes decree righteousness,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"By me do chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of the earth."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Wealth and honour are with me, Lasting substance and righteousness."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"To cause my lovers to inherit substance, Yea, their treasures I fill."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Jehovah possessed me — the beginning of His way, Before His works since then."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy with waters,"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"In His preparing the heavens I am there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight — day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights are with the sons of men."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 8 (YLT)","markdown":"[Proverbs 8](https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/8 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}