Proverbs 8
1 Doth not wisdom call? And understanding give forth her voice?
¿ Not wisdom does she call out and understanding does she give forth? voice her.
2 At the head of high places by the way, Between the paths she hath stood,
At [the] top of [the] heights on [the] way between [the] pathways she stations herself.
3 At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she crieth aloud,
To [the] side of [the] gates to [the] opening of [the] town [the] entrance of [the] doorways they cry aloud.
4 'Unto you, O men, I call, And my voice [is] unto the sons of men.
To you O people I call and voice my [is] to [the] children of humankind.
5 Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,
Understand O naive people prudence and O fools understand heart.
6 Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips [is] uprightness.
Listen for princely things I will speak and [the] utterance of lips my [will be] uprightness.
7 For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips [is] wickedness.
For truth it will utter palate my and [is] an abomination of lips my wickedness.
8 In righteousness [are] all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.
[are] Righteousness all [the] words of mouth my there not among them [is] a twisted [thing] and a distorted [thing].
9 All of them [are] plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.
All of them [are] right to the discerning [person] and upright to [those who] find knowledge.
10 Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold.
Take discipline my and may not [you take] silver and knowledge more than gold chosen.
11 For better [is] wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.
For [is] good wisdom more than jewels and all pleasures not they compare with it.
12 I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out.
I wisdom I dwell prudence and knowledge of discretion I find.
13 The fear of Jehovah [is] to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
[the] fear of Yahweh [is] to hate evil pride and arrogance - and a way evil and a mouth of perversities I hate.
14 Mine [is] counsel and substance, I [am] understanding, I have might.
[belong] to Me counsel and sound wisdom I [am] understanding [belongs] to me strength.
15 By me kings reign, and princes decree righteousness,
By me kings they reign and rulers they enact righteousness.
16 By me do chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of the earth.
By me princes they rule and noble [people] all judges of (righteousness. *L(H)*)
17 I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me.
I ([those who] love me *Q(K)*) I love and [those who] earnestly seek me they find me.
18 Wealth and honour [are] with me, Lasting substance and righteousness.
Wealth and honor [are] with me wealth enduring and righteousness.
19 Better [is] my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.
[is] good Fruit my more than gold and more than pure gold and gain my more than silver chosen.
20 In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,
In [the] path of righteousness I walk in [the] midst of [the] pathways of justice.
21 To cause my lovers to inherit substance, Yea, their treasures I fill.
To give as an inheritance [those who] love me - substance and treasuries their I fill.
22 Jehovah possessed me — the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.
Yahweh he created me [the] beginning of way his [the] beginning of works his from then.
23 From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.
From long ago I was installed from [the] beginning from [the] beginnings of [the] earth.
24 In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy [with] waters,
When there not [were] [the] deeps I was brought forth when there not [were] springs abounding of water.
25 Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.
Before mountains they were planted before [the] hills I was brought forth.
26 While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.
Until not he had made [the] earth and [the] open places and [the] first of [the] dusts of [the] world.
27 In His preparing the heavens I [am] there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,
When established he [the] heavens [was] there I when marked out he a circle on [the] surface of [the] deep.
28 In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,
When made firm he [the] clouds above when became strong [the] springs of [the] deep.
29 In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of 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 Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight — day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,
And I was beside him an artisan and I was delight day - day playing before him at every time.
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights [are] with the sons of men.
Playing in [the] world of earth his and delight my [were] with [the] children of humankind.
32 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways.
And therefore O children listen to me and how blessed! [are those who] ways my they observe.
33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not.
Listen to correction and act wisely and may not you neglect [it].
34 O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance.
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 For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
For [one who] finds me (he finds *Q(K)*) life and he obtained favor from Yahweh.
36 And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!
And [one who] misses me [is] doing wrong to self his all [those who] hate me they love death.
