Proverbs 8
1 Doth not, wisdom, cry aloud? and, understanding, send forth her voice?
Doth not wisedome crie? and vnderstanding vtter her voyce?
2 At the top of the high places above the way, at the place where paths meet, she taketh her stand:
She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths.
3 Beside the gates, at the entrance of the city, —at the going in of the openings, she shouteth: —
She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,
4 Unto you, O men, I call, and, my voice, is unto the sons of men;
O men, I call vnto you, and vtter my voyce to the children of men.
5 Understand, ye simple ones, shrewdness, and, ye dullards understand sense;
O ye foolish men, vnderstand wisedome, and ye, O fooles, be wise in heart.
6 Hear, for, princely things, will I speak, and the opening of my lips shall be of equity;
Giue eare, for I will speake of excellent things, and the opening of my lippes, shall teache things that be right.
7 For, faithfulness, shall my mouth softly utter, but, the abomination of my lips, shall be lawlessness;
For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.
8 In righteousness, shall be all the sayings of my mouth, nothing therein, shall be crafty or perverse;
All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.
9 All of them, shall be plain, to them who would understand, and just, to such as would gain knowledge.
They are all plaine to him that will vnderstande, and streight to them that woulde finde knowledge.
10 Receive my correction, and not silver, and knowledge, rather than choicest gold.
Receiue mine instruction, and not siluer, and knowledge rather then fine golde.
11 For better is wisdom, than ornaments of coral, and, no delightful things, can equal her.
For wisdome is better then precious stones: and all pleasures are not to be compared vnto her.
12 I, wisdom, inhabit shrewdness, —and, the knowledge of sagacious things, I gain.
I wisdome dwell with prudence, and I find foorth knowledge and counsels.
13 The reverence of Yahweh, is to hate wickedness: pride, arrogance, and the way of wickedness; And a mouth of perverse things, do I hate.
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 Mine, are counsel, and effective working, I, am understanding, mine, is valour:
I haue counsell and wisedome: I am vnderstanding, and I haue strength.
15 By me, kings reign, and dignitaries decree righteousness;
By me, Kings reigne, and princes decree iustice.
16 By me, rulers govern, and nobles—all the righteous judges:
By me princes rule and the nobles, and all the iudges of the earth.
17 I love, them who love me, and, they who diligently seek me, find me:
I loue them that loue me: and they that seeke me earely, shall finde me.
18 Riches and honour, are with me, lordly wealth, and righteousness;
Riches and honour are with me: euen durable riches and righteousnesse.
19 Better is my fruit, than gold—yea fine gold, and mine increase, than choice silver;
My fruite is better then golde, euen then fine golde, and my reuenues better then fine siluer.
20 In the way of righteousness, I march along, in the middle of the paths of justice:
I cause to walke in the way of righteousnes, and in the middes of the paths of iudgement,
21 That I may cause them who love me to inherit substance, and, their treasuries, I may fill.
That I may cause them that loue me, to inherite substance, and I will fill their treasures.
22 Yahweh, had constituted me the beginning of his way, before his works, at the commencement of that time;
The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: I was before his workes of olde.
23 At the outset of the ages, had I been established, in advance of the antiquities of the earth;
I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning and before the earth.
24 When there was no resounding deep, I had been brought forth, when there were no fountains, abounding with water;
When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.
25 Ere yet the mountains had been settled, before the hills, had I been brought forth;
Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.
26 Or ever he had made the land and the wastes, or the top of the dry parts of the world:
He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.
27 When he prepared the heavens, there, was I! When he decreed a vault upon the face of the resounding deep;
When hee prepared the heauens, I was there, when he set the compasse vpon the deepe.
28 When he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the resounding deep, waxed strong;
When he established the cloudes aboue, when he confirmed the fountaines of the deepe,
29 When he fixed for the sea its bound, that, the waters, should not go beyond his bidding, when he decreed 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 became I beside him, a firm and sure worker, then became I filled with delight, day by day, exulting before him on every occasion;
Then was I with him as a nourisher, and I was dayly his delight reioycing alway before him,
31 Exulting in the fruitful land of his earth, Yea, my fulness of delight, was with the sons of men.
And tooke my solace in the compasse of his earth: and my delite is with the children of men.
32 Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, for how happy are they who, to my ways, pay regard!
Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.
33 Hear ye correction, and be wise, and do not neglect.
Heare instruction, and be ye wise, and refuse it not:
34 How happy the man that doth hearken to me, —keeping guard at my doors, day by day, watching at the posts of my gates;
blessed is the man that heareth mee, watching dayly at my gates, and giuing attendance at the postes of my doores.
35 For, he that findeth me, findeth life, and hath obtained favour from Yahweh;
For he that findeth me, findeth life, and shall obteine fauour of the Lord.
36 But, he that misseth me, wrongeth his own soul, all who hate me, love death.
But he that sinneth against me, hurteth his owne soule: and all that hate me, loue death.
