Proverbs 8:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

playing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; And my delights were with the sons of men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Rejoicing in His inhabited earth and delighting in the sons of men. [Ps. 16:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.

Common English Bible

frolicking with his inhabited earth and delighting in the human race.

Catholic Public Domain Version

playing in globe of the earth. And my delight was to be with the sons of men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.

Proverbs 8:31 Cross References

Psalm 16:3

As for the holy ones in the land, they are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.

John 13:1

Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.