Proverbs 8:31
Playing in His habitable earth, and my delights are with the sons of men.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
In Context
30Then I was by Him, as a nursling; and I was daily all delight, playing always before Him,
32Now therefore, ye children, hearken unto me; for happy are they that keep my ways.
Cross References
Psalms 16:3As for the holy that are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:23-32
Wisdom Eternal and Divine. 22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when… Read the whole commentary →