Proverbs 8
1 not wisdom to call: call out and understanding to give: cry out voice her
Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice?
2 in/on/with head: top height upon way: road place path to stand
In the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she standeth;
3 to/for hand: to gate to/for lip: edge town entrance entrance to sing
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
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 is to the sons of men.
5 to understand simple craftiness and fool to understand heart
O ye simple, understand subtilty; 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 I will speak excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
7 for truth: true to mutter palate my and abomination lips my wickedness
For my mouth shall utter 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 words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
9 all their straightforward to/for to understand and upright to/for to find knowledge
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find 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; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto her.
12 I wisdom to dwell craftiness and knowledge plot to find
I wisdom have made subtilty my dwelling, and find out knowledge [and] discretion.
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 arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
14 to/for me counsel and wisdom I understanding to/for me might
Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: 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 justice.
16 in/on/with me ruler to rule and noble all to judge (righteousness *LH)
By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.
17 I (to love: lover me *QK) to love: lover and to seek me to find me
I love them that love me; and those that seek me diligently shall find me.
18 riches and glory with me substance surpassing and righteousness
Riches and honour are with me; [yea], durable riches 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, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
20 in/on/with way righteousness to go: walk in/on/with midst path justice
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
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 substance, and that I may fill their treasuries.
22 LORD to buy me first: beginning way: conduct his front: old work his from the past
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23 from forever: antiquity to install from head: first from front: old land: country/planet
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24 in/on/with nothing abyss to twist: give birth in/on/with nothing spring to honor: many water
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25 in/on/with before mountain: mount to sink to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
Before the mountains were settled, 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 earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning 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 established the heavens, I was there: when he set a circle upon the face of the deep:
28 in/on/with to strengthen he cloud from above in/on/with be strong spring abyss
When he made firm the sides above: when the fountains 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 gave to the sea its bound, that the waters should not transgress his commandment: when he marked out 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 I was by him, [as] a master workman: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him;
31 to laugh in/on/with world land: country/planet his and delight my with son: child man
Rejoicing in his habitable earth; and my delight was 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
Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
33 to hear: hear discipline: instruction and be wise and not to neglect
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse 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
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
35 for to find me (to find *QK) life and to promote acceptance from LORD
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of 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 wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
