Proverbs 8
1 It is as if wisdom, with great understanding [of many things], is calling [PRS] out [to people].
¿ Not wisdom does she call out and understanding does she give forth? voice her.
2 Wisdom stands on hilltops and at crossroads.
At [the] top of [the] heights on [the] way between [the] pathways she stations herself.
3 [Wisdom also stands] at the city gates and shouts loudly,
To [the] side of [the] gates to [the] opening of [the] town [the] entrance of [the] doorways they cry aloud.
4 “I am calling to everyone! I am shouting loudly to all people!
To you O people I call and voice my [is] to [the] children of humankind.
5 You people who do not know how to do things that are smart to do, get sound judgment; you foolish people, get good understanding!
Understand O naive people prudence and O fools understand heart.
6 Listen to me, because I have some excellent/important things to say. What I say is what is fair/right.
Listen for princely things I will speak and [the] utterance of lips my [will be] uprightness.
7 I speak what is true; I detest speaking [MTY] what is false/deceptive.
For truth it will utter palate my and [is] an abomination of lips my wickedness.
8 Everything that I say is honest; there is nothing that I say that deceives [people].
[are] Righteousness all [the] words of mouth my there not among them [is] a twisted [thing] and a distorted [thing].
9 My words are clear to those who have good sense; those who are wise know that what I say is right.
All of them [are] right to the discerning [person] and upright to [those who] find knowledge.
10 [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,
Take discipline my and may not [you take] silver and knowledge more than gold chosen.
11 because wisdom is more valuable than jewels. Nothing that you desire [is as valuable] as being wise.
For [is] good wisdom more than jewels and all pleasures not they compare with it.
12 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.
I wisdom I dwell prudence and knowledge of discretion I find.
13 [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].
[the] fear of Yahweh [is] to hate evil pride and arrogance - and a way evil and a mouth of perversities I hate.
14 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.
[belong] to Me counsel and sound wisdom I [am] understanding [belongs] to me strength.
15 When kings are wise, they rule [well]; and when rulers are wise, they make laws that are just/fair.
By me kings they reign and rulers they enact righteousness.
16 Rulers govern their people with the help of me, wisdom, and those who have authority decide things fairly/just with my help.
By me princes they rule and noble [people] all judges of (righteousness. *L(H)*)
17 I, [wisdom], love [all] those who love me, and [all] those who truly seek me [will] find me.
I ([those who] love me *Q(K)*) I love and [those who] earnestly seek me they find me.
18 I enable [people] to become rich and to be honored; [I enable them to have] wealth that will last and to be successful.
Wealth and honor [are] with me wealth enduring and righteousness.
19 What I can give people is more valuable than fine/pure gold and the best silver.
[is] good Fruit my more than gold and more than pure gold and gain my more than silver chosen.
20 I always do what is righteous and just/fair.
In [the] path of righteousness I walk in [the] midst of [the] pathways of justice.
21 I give wealth to those who love me; I fill their houses with valuable things.
To give as an inheritance [those who] love me - substance and treasuries their I fill.
22 Yahweh created me, [wisdom], when he began [to create the world]; he created me [to do my work] before he created anything else.
Yahweh he created me [the] beginning of way his [the] beginning of works his from then.
23 He appointed me long ago, before he created the earth.
From long ago I was installed from [the] beginning from [the] beginnings of [the] earth.
24 I was born before the oceans were [created], when there were no springs from which water flowed.
When there not [were] [the] deeps I was brought forth when there not [were] springs abounding of water.
25 I was born before the hills and mountains were formed;
Before mountains they were planted before [the] hills I was brought forth.
26 [I, wisdom], was born before Yahweh made the earth, before he made the fields and the soil on the earth.
Until not he had made [the] earth and [the] open places and [the] first of [the] dusts of [the] world.
27 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.
When established he [the] heavens [was] there I when marked out he a circle on [the] surface of [the] deep.
28 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.
When made firm he [the] clouds above when became strong [the] springs of [the] deep.
29 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.
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.
30 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.
And I was beside him an artisan and I was delight day - day playing before him at every time.
31 I was delighted with the world that he created; I was happy with the people whom he created, too.
Playing in [the] world of earth his and delight my [were] with [the] children of humankind.
32 So, [you people who are like] my sons, listen to me. [I am] pleased with [all] those who obey my teachings.
And therefore O children listen to me and how blessed! [are those who] ways my they observe.
33 Listen [carefully] to what I teach you and become wise. Do not reject my teaching!
Listen to correction and act wisely and may not you neglect [it].
34 [I am] pleased with those who listen to me, those who are outside my house every day, waiting [for me to come out].
How blessed! [is] a person [who] listens to me by keeping watch at doors my day - day by watching [the] doorposts of doorways my.
35 Those who find me will have [a long] life, and Yahweh [will] be pleased with them.
For [one who] finds me (he finds *Q(K)*) life and he obtained favor from Yahweh.
36 But those who stray away from me [just] harm themselves. All those who hate me, [it is as though] [IRO] they are loving death.”
And [one who] misses me [is] doing wrong to self his all [those who] hate me they love death.
