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