Proverbs 8
1 Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?
not wisdom to call: call out and understanding to give: cry out voice her
2 On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.
in/on/with head: top height upon way: road place path to stand
3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:
to/for hand: to gate to/for lip: edge town entrance entrance to sing
4 “I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
to(wards) you man to call: call out and voice my to(wards) son: child man
5 You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!
to understand simple craftiness and fool to understand heart
6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
to hear: hear for leader to speak: speak and opening lips my uprightness
7 For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
for truth: true to mutter palate my and abomination lips my wickedness
8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
in/on/with righteousness all word lip my nothing in/on/with them to twist and twisted
9 They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.
all their straightforward to/for to understand and upright to/for to find knowledge
10 Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.
to take: take discipline: instruction my and not silver: money and knowledge from gold to choose
11 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.
for pleasant wisdom from jewel and all pleasure not be like in/on/with her
12 “I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.
I wisdom to dwell craftiness and knowledge plot to find
13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
fear LORD to hate bad: evil pride and pride and way: conduct bad: evil and lip: word perversity to hate
14 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
to/for me counsel and wisdom I understanding to/for me might
15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
in/on/with me king to reign and to rule to decree righteousness
16 By me princes rule, nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.
in/on/with me ruler to rule and noble all to judge (righteousness *L(H)*)
17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
I (to love: lover me *Q(K)*) to love: lover and to seek me to find me
18 With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.
riches and glory with me substance surpassing and righteousness
19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.
pleasant fruit my from gold and from pure gold and produce my from silver: money to choose
20 I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,
in/on/with way righteousness to go: walk in/on/with midst path justice
21 that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.
to/for to inherit to love: lover me there and treasure their to fill
22 “Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.
LORD to buy me first: beginning way: conduct his front: old work his from the past
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.
from forever: antiquity to install from head: first from front: old land: country/planet
24 When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.
in/on/with nothing abyss to twist: give birth in/on/with nothing spring to honor: many water
25 Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;
in/on/with before mountain: mount to sink to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
till not to make land: country/planet and outside and head: first dust world
27 When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
in/on/with to establish: establish he heaven there I in/on/with to decree he circle upon face: surface abyss
28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,
in/on/with to strengthen he cloud from above in/on/with be strong spring abyss
29 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
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
30 then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,
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
31 rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.
to laugh in/on/with world land: country/planet his and delight my with son: child man
32 “Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and blessed way: conduct my to keep: obey
33 Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.
to hear: hear discipline: instruction and be wise and not to neglect
34 Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
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
35 For whoever finds me finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.
for to find me (to find *Q(K)*) life and to promote acceptance from LORD
36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
and to sin me to injure soul: myself his all to hate me to love: lover death
