Proverbs 8:31 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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 saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.

John 13:1

Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

John 4:34

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.