Proverbs 8:31

Geneva Bible (1560)

And tooke my solace in the compasse of his earth: and my delite is with the children of men.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 16:3 : 3 But to the Saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent: all my delite is in them.
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 Sacrifice & offering thou didest not desire: (for mine eares hast thou prepared) burnt offring and sinne offering hast thou not required. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: for in the rolle of the booke it is written of me, 8 I desired to doe thy good will, O my God: yea, thy Lawe is within mine heart.
  • John 13:1 : 1 Nowe before the feast of the Passeouer, when Iesus knewe that his houre was come, that he should depart out of this world vnto the Father, forasmuch as he loued his owne which were in the world, vnto the end he loued them.
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For ye knowe the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, that hee being rich, for your sakes became poore, that yee through his pouertie might be made rich.
  • John 4:34 : 34 Iesus saide vnto them, My meate is that I may doe the will of him that sent me, and finish his worke.

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  • Prov 8:30
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    30Then was I with him as a nourisher, and I was dayly his delight reioycing alway before him,

  • Ps 16:3
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    3But to the Saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent: all my delite is in them.

  • Prov 8:32
    75%

    32Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.

  • Job 8:19
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    19Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.

  • Eccl 2:8-10
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    8I haue gathered vnto me also siluer and gold, and the chiefe treasures of Kings & prouinces: I haue prouided me men singers and women singers, and the delites of the sonnes of men, as a woman taken captiue, & women taken captiues.

    9And I was great, & increased aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem: also my wisedome remained with me.

    10And whatsoeuer mine eyes desired, I withheld it not from them: I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy: for mine heart reioyced in al my labour: & this was my portion of all my trauaile.

  • Prov 4:3
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    3For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,

  • Prov 8:18-19
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    18Riches and honour are with me: euen durable riches and righteousnesse.

    19My fruite is better then golde, euen then fine golde, and my reuenues better then fine siluer.

  • Eccl 8:15
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    15And I praysed ioy: for there is no goodnesse to man vnder the sunne, saue to eate and to drinke and to reioyce: for this is adioyned to his labour, the dayes of his life that God hath giuen him vnder the sunne.

  • Job 29:4-5
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    4As I was in the dayes of my youth: when Gods prouidence was vpon my tabernacle:

    5When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me.

  • Prov 23:15-16
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    15My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.

    16And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.

  • Job 31:25-26
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    25If I reioyced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much,

    26If I did behold the sunne, when it shined, or the moone, walking in her brightnes,

  • Prov 8:25-27
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    25Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.

    26He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.

    27When hee prepared the heauens, I was there, when he set the compasse vpon the deepe.

  • Prov 8:21-23
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    21That I may cause them that loue me, to inherite substance, and I will fill their treasures.

    22The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: I was before his workes of olde.

    23I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning and before the earth.

  • Eccl 2:1
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    1I said in mine heart, Goe to nowe, I will proue thee with ioy: therefore take thou pleasure in pleasant things: and beholde, this also is vanitie.

  • Prov 27:11
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    11My sonne, be wise, and reioyce mine heart, that I may answere him that reprocheth me.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22Therefore I see that there is nothing better then that a man shoulde reioyce in his affaires, because that is his portion. For who shal bring him to see what shalbe after him?

  • Job 8:21
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    21Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy.

  • Eccl 11:9
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    9Reioyce, O yong man, in thy youth, and let thine heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth: and walke in the waies of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but knowe that for all these things, God wil bring thee to iudgement.

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12I know that there is nothing good in them, but to reioyce, and to doe good in his life.

  • Prov 3:13
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    13Blessed is the man that findeth wisedome, and the man that getteth vnderstanding.

  • Song 2:3
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    3Like the apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my welbeloued among the sonnes of men: vnder his shadow had I delite, & sate downe: and his fruite was sweete vnto my mouth.

  • Eccl 2:25
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    25For who could eate, and who could haste to outward things more then I?

  • Job 38:7
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    7When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:

  • 2 Sam 22:20
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    20And brought me foorth into a large place: he deliuered me, because he fauoured me.

  • Prov 8:12
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    12I wisdome dwell with prudence, and I find foorth knowledge and counsels.

  • Eccl 3:18
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    18I considered in mine heart the state of the children of men that God had purged them: yet to see to, they are in themselues as beastes.

  • Acts 2:26
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    26Therefore did mine heart reioyce, and my tongue was glad, and moreouer also my flesh shall rest in hope,

  • Prov 8:4
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    4O men, I call vnto you, and vtter my voyce to the children of men.

  • Eccl 2:3
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    3I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe to wine, and to leade mine heart in wisdome, and to take holde of follie, till I might see where is that goodnesse of the children of men, which they enioy vnder the sunne: the whole nomber of the dayes of their life.

  • Prov 23:24
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    24The father of the righteous shal greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.

  • Ps 18:19
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    19Hee brought mee foorth also into a large place: hee deliuered mee because hee fauoured me.

  • Prov 8:34
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    34Blessed is the man that heareth mee, watching dayly at my gates, & giuing attendance at the postes of my doores.

  • Ps 40:8
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    8I desired to doe thy good will, O my God: yea, thy Lawe is within mine heart.

  • Ps 104:34
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    34Let my wordes be acceptable vnto him: I will reioyce in the Lord.

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    14With the Kings & counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:

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    18(5:17) Beholde then, what I haue seene good, that it is comely to eate, and to drinke, and to take pleasure in all his labour, wherein he traueileth vnder the sunne, the whole nomber of the dayes of his life, which God giueth him: for this is his portion.

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    9Reioyce with the wife whom thou hast loued all the dayes of the life of thy vanitie, which God hath giuen thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for this is thy portion in the life, and in thy trauaile wherein thou labourest vnder the sunne.

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    13And I haue giuen mine heart to search and finde out wisdome by all things that are done vnder the heauen: (this sore trauaile hath GOD giuen to the sonnes of men, to humble them thereby)

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    26Therefore I awaked and behelde, and my sleepe was sweete vnto me.

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    10I haue seene the trauaile that God hath giuen to ye sonnes of men to humble them thereby.