Proverbs 8
1 Does wisdom not call? And understanding give forth her voice?
not wisdom to call: call out and understanding to give: cry out voice her
2 At the head of high places by the way, She has stood between the paths,
in/on/with head: top height upon way: road place path to stand
3 At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she cries aloud,
to/for hand: to gate to/for lip: edge town entrance entrance to sing
4 “To you, O men, I call, And my voice [is] to the sons of men.
to(wards) you man to call: call out and voice my to(wards) son: child man
5 Understand, you simple ones, prudence, And you fools, understand the heart,
to understand simple craftiness and fool to understand heart
6 Listen, for I speak noble things, And the opening of my lips [is] uprightness.
to hear: hear for leader to speak: speak and opening lips my uprightness
7 For my mouth utters truth, And wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips.
for truth: true to mutter palate my and abomination lips my wickedness
8 All the sayings of my mouth [are] in righteousness, Nothing in them is contrary and perverse.
in/on/with righteousness all word lip my nothing in/on/with them to twist and twisted
9 All of them [are] plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.
all their straightforward to/for to understand and upright to/for to find knowledge
10 Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold.
to take: take discipline: instruction my and not silver: money and knowledge from gold to choose
11 For wisdom [is] better than rubies, Indeed, all delights are not comparable with it.
for pleasant wisdom from jewel and all pleasure not be like in/on/with her
12 I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And I find out a knowledge of purposes.
I wisdom to dwell craftiness and knowledge plot to find
13 The fear of YHWH [is] to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a contrary mouth, I have hated.
fear LORD to hate bad: evil pride and pride and way: conduct bad: evil and lip: word perversity to hate
14 Counsel and substance [are] mine, I [am] understanding, I have might.
to/for me counsel and wisdom I understanding to/for me might
15 By me kings reign, and princes decree righteousness,
in/on/with me king to reign and to rule to decree righteousness
16 By me chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of earth.
in/on/with me ruler to rule and noble all to judge (righteousness *L(H)*)
17 I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly find me.
I (to love: lover me *Q(K)*) to love: lover and to seek me to find me
18 Wealth and honor [are] with me, Lasting substance and righteousness.
riches and glory with me substance surpassing and righteousness
19 My fruit [is] better than gold, even fine gold, And my increase than choice silver.
pleasant fruit my from gold and from pure gold and produce my from silver: money to choose
20 I cause to walk in a path of righteousness, In midst of paths of judgment,
in/on/with way righteousness to go: walk in/on/with midst path justice
21 To cause my lovers to inherit substance, Indeed, I fill their treasures.
to/for to inherit to love: lover me there and treasure their to fill
22 YHWH possessed me—the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.
LORD to buy me first: beginning way: conduct his front: old work his from the past
23 I was anointed from the age, from the first, From former states of the earth.
from forever: antiquity to install from head: first from front: old land: country/planet
24 In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy [with] waters,
in/on/with nothing abyss to twist: give birth in/on/with nothing spring to honor: many water
25 Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.
in/on/with before mountain: mount to sink to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
26 While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.
till not to make land: country/planet and outside and head: first dust world
27 In His preparing the heavens I [am] there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,
in/on/with to establish: establish he heaven there I in/on/with to decree he circle upon face: surface abyss
28 In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,
in/on/with to strengthen he cloud from above in/on/with be strong spring abyss
29 In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters do not transgress His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,
in/on/with to set: appoint he to/for sea statute: allotment his and water not to pass: trespass lip: word his in/on/with to decree he foundation land: country/planet
30 Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight—day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,
and to be beside him artisan and to be delight day: daily day: daily to laugh to/for face: before his in/on/with all time
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights [are] with the sons of men.
to laugh in/on/with world land: country/planet his and delight my with son: child man
32 And now, you sons, listen to me, Indeed, blessed are they who keep my ways.
and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and blessed way: conduct my to keep: obey
33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not slight.
to hear: hear discipline: instruction and be wise and not to neglect
34 O the blessedness of the man listening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the doorposts of my entrance.
blessed man to hear: hear to/for me to/for to watch upon door my day: daily day: daily to/for to keep: look at doorpost entrance my
35 For whoever is finding me, has found life, And brings out goodwill from YHWH.
for to find me (to find *Q(K)*) life and to promote acceptance from LORD
36 And whoever is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!”
and to sin me to injure soul: myself his all to hate me to love: lover death
