Proverbs 8

1 ¿ Not wisdom does she call out and understanding does she give forth? voice her.

It is as if wisdom, with great understanding [of many things], is calling [PRS] out [to people].

2 At [the] top of [the] heights on [the] way between [the] pathways she stations herself.

Wisdom stands on hilltops and at crossroads.

3 To [the] side of [the] gates to [the] opening of [the] town [the] entrance of [the] doorways they cry aloud.

[Wisdom also stands] at the city gates and shouts loudly,

4 To you O people I call and voice my [is] to [the] children of humankind.

“I am calling to everyone! I am shouting loudly to all people!

5 Understand O naive people prudence and O fools understand heart.

You people who do not know how to do things that are smart to do, get sound judgment; you foolish people, get good understanding!

6 Listen for princely things I will speak and [the] utterance of lips my [will be] uprightness.

Listen to me, because I have some excellent/important things to say. What I say is what is fair/right.

7 For truth it will utter palate my and [is] an abomination of lips my wickedness.

I speak what is true; I detest speaking [MTY] what is false/deceptive.

8 [are] Righteousness all [the] words of mouth my there not among them [is] a twisted [thing] and a distorted [thing].

Everything that I say is honest; there is nothing that I say that deceives [people].

9 All of them [are] right to the discerning [person] and upright to [those who] find knowledge.

My words are clear to those who have good sense; those who are wise know that what I say is right.

10 Take discipline my and may not [you take] silver and knowledge more than gold chosen.

[If someone offers you the kind of teaching I give] or offers you silver, choose my teaching. [If he offers to show you how to be wise] or offers you gold, choose to know how to be wise,

11 For [is] good wisdom more than jewels and all pleasures not they compare with it.

because wisdom is more valuable than jewels. Nothing that you desire [is as valuable] as being wise.

12 I wisdom I dwell prudence and knowledge of discretion I find.

I, wisdom, and understanding of what is smart to do, cannot be separated. We are like two people who live in the same house. I know how to be wise and how to make smart decisions.

13 [the] fear of Yahweh [is] to hate evil pride and arrogance - and a way evil and a mouth of perversities I hate.

[All the people] who revere Yahweh hate evil. I, wisdom, hate [people who are] proud and [people] who think they are more important [than others]. I hate [people who] behave in an evil way and those who say things to deceive [others].

14 [belong] to Me counsel and sound wisdom I [am] understanding [belongs] to me strength.

I give [people] good advice and I enable them to do things that are wise. I understand how things really are, and I am strong.

15 By me kings they reign and rulers they enact righteousness.

When kings are wise, they rule [well]; and when rulers are wise, they make laws that are just/fair.

16 By me princes they rule and noble [people] all judges of (righteousness. *L(H)*)

Rulers govern their people with the help of me, wisdom, and those who have authority decide things fairly/just with my help.

17 I ([those who] love me *Q(K)*) I love and [those who] earnestly seek me they find me.

I, [wisdom], love [all] those who love me, and [all] those who truly seek me [will] find me.

18 Wealth and honor [are] with me wealth enduring and righteousness.

I enable [people] to become rich and to be honored; [I enable them to have] wealth that will last and to be successful.

19 [is] good Fruit my more than gold and more than pure gold and gain my more than silver chosen.

What I can give people is more valuable than fine/pure gold and the best silver.

20 In [the] path of righteousness I walk in [the] midst of [the] pathways of justice.

I always do what is righteous and just/fair.

21 To give as an inheritance [those who] love me - substance and treasuries their I fill.

I give wealth to those who love me; I fill their houses with valuable things.

22 Yahweh he created me [the] beginning of way his [the] beginning of works his from then.

Yahweh created me, [wisdom], when he began [to create the world]; he created me [to do my work] before he created anything else.

23 From long ago I was installed from [the] beginning from [the] beginnings of [the] earth.

He appointed me long ago, before he created the earth.

24 When there not [were] [the] deeps I was brought forth when there not [were] springs abounding of water.

I was born before the oceans were [created], when there were no springs from which water flowed.

25 Before mountains they were planted before [the] hills I was brought forth.

I was born before the hills and mountains were formed;

26 Until not he had made [the] earth and [the] open places and [the] first of [the] dusts of [the] world.

[I, wisdom], was born before Yahweh made the earth, before he made the fields and the soil on the earth.

27 When established he [the] heavens [was] there I when marked out he a circle on [the] surface of [the] deep.

I was there when Yahweh put the sky in place, when he marked the place [in the distance] where the sky and the oceans [seem to] come together.

28 When made firm he [the] clouds above when became strong [the] springs of [the] deep.

I was there when Yahweh put the clouds above [the earth] and when he caused the water that is inside the earth to be secure.

29 When set he for the sea - limit its and [the] waters not they will transgress mouth his when marked out he [the] foundations of [the] earth.

I was there when he fixed a boundary for the seas, so that the water in the seas would not go past those boundaries, and when he put down the foundations which support the earth.

30 And I was beside him an artisan and I was delight day - day playing before him at every time.

I was at the side of Yahweh, the master worker (OR, as though I was his child). I caused him to be happy every day, and I was always rejoicing when I was with him.

31 Playing in [the] world of earth his and delight my [were] with [the] children of humankind.

I was delighted with the world that he created; I was happy with the people whom he created, too.

32 And therefore O children listen to me and how blessed! [are those who] ways my they observe.

So, [you people who are like] my sons, listen to me. [I am] pleased with [all] those who obey my teachings.

33 Listen to correction and act wisely and may not you neglect [it].

Listen [carefully] to what I teach you and become wise. Do not reject my teaching!

34 How blessed! [is] a person [who] listens to me by keeping watch at doors my day - day by watching [the] doorposts of doorways my.

[I am] pleased with those who listen to me, those who are outside my house every day, waiting [for me to come out].

35 For [one who] finds me (he finds *Q(K)*) life and he obtained favor from Yahweh.

Those who find me will have [a long] life, and Yahweh [will] be pleased with them.

36 And [one who] misses me [is] doing wrong to self his all [those who] hate me they love death.

But those who stray away from me [just] harm themselves. All those who hate me, [it is as though] [IRO] they are loving death.”