Proverbs 8
1 Isn't wisdom calling? Isn't understanding raising her voice?
Doth not wisedome crie? and vnderstanding vtter her voyce?
2 On the top of the hill by the road, she stands up at the crossroads.
She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths.
3 Beside the gates of the town, right there at the entrance, she cries out:
She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,
4 “I'm calling out to you, everyone! My call is to everyone in the whole world!
O men, I call vnto you, and vtter my voyce to the children of men.
5 If you're immature, learn how to grow up. If you're stupid, learn what makes good sense.
O ye foolish men, vnderstand wisedome, and ye, O fooles, be wise in heart.
6 Listen to me because I have valuable things to explain to you.
Giue eare, for I will speake of excellent things, and the opening of my lippes, shall teache things that be right.
7 I say what's right, because I tell the truth and I hate wickedness in all its forms.
For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.
8 All the words I say are true; none are false or misleading.
All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.
9 My words are straightforward to anyone with understanding; they are correct to those who have knowledge.
They are all plaine to him that will vnderstande, and streight to them that woulde finde knowledge.
10 Choose my instruction over silver; choose knowledge over pure gold.
Receiue mine instruction, and not siluer, and knowledge rather then fine golde.
11 For wisdom is more valuable than rubies; everything you could ever want just doesn't compare!
For wisdome is better then precious stones: and all pleasures are not to be compared vnto her.
12 I, wisdom, am at home with good decisions. I know how to find knowledge and discernment.
I wisdome dwell with prudence, and I find foorth knowledge and counsels.
13 Honoring the Lord means hating evil. So I hate pride and arrogance, wicked behavior and telling lies.
The feare of the Lord is to hate euill as pride, and arrogancie, and the euill way: and a mouth that speaketh lewde things, I doe hate.
14 I have advice and good judgment; I know what makes sense, and I have power.
I haue counsell and wisedome: I am vnderstanding, and I haue strength.
15 It's because of me that kings reign, and rulers issue fair decrees.
By me, Kings reigne, and princes decree iustice.
16 It's because of me that leaders and nobles govern—all who rule justly.
By me princes rule and the nobles, and all the iudges of the earth.
17 I love those who love me, and those who really look for me will find me.
I loue them that loue me: and they that seeke me earely, shall finde me.
18 With me go riches and honor, lasting wealth and prosperity.
Riches and honour are with me: euen durable riches and righteousnesse.
19 The fruit I produce is better than gold, even pure gold, and my harvest is better than even the best silver.
My fruite is better then golde, euen then fine golde, and my reuenues better then fine siluer.
20 I live in a way that's right; I follow the paths of justice.
I cause to walke in the way of righteousnes, and in the middes of the paths of iudgement,
21 I grant wealth to those who love me; I fill their treasure storehouses.
That I may cause them that loue me, to inherite substance, and I will fill their treasures.
22 The Lord created me first of all; I was made before anything else.
The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: I was before his workes of olde.
23 I was formed a long time ago, at the first, before the world began.
I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning and before the earth.
24 I was born when there were no ocean depths, when there were no springs pouring out water.
When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.
25 I was born before the mountains or the hills had been formed,
Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.
26 when he hadn't made the earth and its fields or any of the earth's dust.
He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.
27 I was there when he placed the heavens in position, when he drew the horizon over the ocean,
When hee prepared the heauens, I was there, when he set the compasse vpon the deepe.
28 when he made the clouds in the sky above, when he created the springs of the oceans,
When he established the cloudes aboue, when he confirmed the fountaines of the deepe,
29 when he set limits on the sea so that the waters would not go farther than he ordered, and when he laid out the foundations of the earth.
When he gaue his decree to the Sea, that the waters shoulde not passe his commandement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth,
30 Then I was beside him as a master craftsman. I made him happy every day, and I was always full of joy in his presence.
Then was I with him as a nourisher, and I was dayly his delight reioycing alway before him,
31 I was so happy in the world he created, celebrating together with human beings.
And tooke my solace in the compasse of his earth: and my delite is with the children of men.
32 And now, my sons, listen to me, for happy are those who follow my ways.
Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.
33 Listen to my instruction and be wise—do not reject it.
Heare instruction, and be ye wise, and refuse it not:
34 Happy are those who listen to me, watching for me every day at my doors, waiting at my entrance way.
blessed is the man that heareth mee, watching dayly at my gates, and giuing attendance at the postes of my doores.
35 For those who find me, find life, and are accepted by the Lord.
For he that findeth me, findeth life, and shall obteine fauour of the Lord.
36 But those who don't find me hurt themselves; everyone who hates me loves death.”
But he that sinneth against me, hurteth his owne soule: and all that hate me, loue death.
