< Proverbs 8 >
1 not wisdom to call: call out and understanding to give: cry out voice her
Behold, wisdom calleth, and understanding sendeth forth her voice,
2 in/on/with head: top height upon way: road place path to stand
On the top of high places, by the wayside, at the house where there are [many] paths doth she place herself.
3 to/for hand: to gate to/for lip: edge town entrance entrance to sing
Alongside of gates, at the opening of the city, at the entrance of the town[-doors] doth she call loudly,
4 to(wards) you man to call: call out and voice my to(wards) son: child man
Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice [goeth forth] to the sons of men,
5 to understand simple craftiness and fool to understand heart
Learn, O ye simple, to understand prudence: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
6 to hear: hear for leader to speak: speak and opening lips my uprightness
Hear! for of noble things will I speak; and the opening of my lips shall be of what is equitable.
7 for truth: true to mutter palate my and abomination lips my wickedness
For truth uttereth my palate ever, and the abomination of my lips is wickedness.
8 in/on/with righteousness all word lip my nothing in/on/with them to twist and twisted
In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, there is in them nothing crooked or perverse.
9 all their straightforward to/for to understand and upright to/for to find knowledge
They are all evident to the man of understanding, and correct to those that have obtained knowledge.
10 to take: take discipline: instruction my and not silver: money and knowledge from gold to choose
Accept my correction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11 for pleasant wisdom from jewel and all pleasure not be like in/on/with her
For wisdom is better than pearls; and all the things that men wish for are not equal to her.
12 I wisdom to dwell craftiness and knowledge plot to find
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and the knowledge of discreet thoughts do I discover.
13 fear LORD to hate bad: evil pride and pride and way: conduct bad: evil and lip: word perversity to hate
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride and arrogance, and the evil way: and the mouth of perverseness do I hate.
14 to/for me counsel and wisdom I understanding to/for me might
Mine are counsel and sound wisdom: I am understanding; mine is might.
15 in/on/with me king to reign and to rule to decree righteousness
Through me do kings reign, and chieftains give decrees [in] righteousness.
16 in/on/with me ruler to rule and noble all to judge (righteousness *L(H)*)
Through me do princes rule, and the nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
17 I (to love: lover me *Q(K)*) to love: lover and to seek me to find me
I indeed love those that love me: and those that seek me earnestly shall find me.
18 riches and glory with me substance surpassing and righteousness
Riches and honor are with me, yea, enduring wealth and righteousness.
19 pleasant fruit my from gold and from pure gold and produce my from silver: money to choose
My fruit is better than gold, and than fine gold; and my products, than choice silver.
20 in/on/with way righteousness to go: walk in/on/with midst path justice
On the road of righteousness do I walk firmly, in the midst the paths of justice:
21 to/for to inherit to love: lover me there and treasure their to fill
That I may cause those that love me to inherit a lasting possession; and their treasures will I fill
22 LORD to buy me first: beginning way: conduct his front: old work his from the past
The Lord created me as the beginning of his way, the first of his works from the commencement,
23 from forever: antiquity to install from head: first from front: old land: country/planet
From eternity was I appointed chief, from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.
24 in/on/with nothing abyss to twist: give birth in/on/with nothing spring to honor: many water
When there were yet no depths, was I brought forth; when there were yet no springs laden heavily with water.
25 in/on/with before mountain: mount to sink to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
Before the mountains were yet sunk down, before the hills was I brought forth:
26 till not to make land: country/planet and outside and head: first dust world
While as yet he had not made the land and open fields, nor the chief of the dust of the world.
27 in/on/with to establish: establish he heaven there I in/on/with to decree he circle upon face: surface abyss
When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle over the face of the deep;
28 in/on/with to strengthen he cloud from above in/on/with be strong spring abyss
When he fastened the skies above; when the springs of the deep became strong;
29 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
When he assigned to the sea his decree, that the waters should not transgress his order: when he established firmly the foundations of the earth:
30 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
Then was I near him, as a nursling: and I was day by day [his] delights, playing before him at all times;
31 to laugh in/on/with world land: country/planet his and delight my with son: child man
Playing in the world, his earth; and having my delights with the sons of men.
32 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and blessed way: conduct my to keep: obey
And now, O children [of men], hearken unto me! for happy those that observe my ways.
33 to hear: hear discipline: instruction and be wise and not to neglect
Hear correction, and be wise, and reject it not.
34 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
Happy is the man that hearkeneth unto me, watching day by day at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
35 for to find me (to find *Q(K)*) life and to promote acceptance from LORD
For he who findeth me findeth life, and he obtaineth favor from the Lord.
36 and to sin me to injure soul: myself his all to hate me to love: lover death
But he that sinneth against me doth violence to his own soul: all those that hate me love death.