Proverbs 8
1 not wisdom to call: call out and understanding to give: cry out voice her
Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?
2 in/on/with head: top height upon way: road place path to stand
On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand.
3 to/for hand: to gate to/for lip: edge town entrance entrance to sing
Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:
4 to(wards) you man to call: call out and voice my to(wards) son: child man
“To you, O men, I call out, and my cry is to the sons of men.
5 to understand simple craftiness and fool to understand heart
O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.
6 to hear: hear for leader to speak: speak and opening lips my uprightness
Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right.
7 for truth: true to mutter palate my and abomination lips my wickedness
For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable 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 righteous; none are crooked or perverse.
9 all their straightforward to/for to understand and upright to/for to find knowledge
They are all plain to the discerning, and upright to those who find knowledge.
10 to take: take discipline: instruction my and not silver: money and knowledge from gold to choose
Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
11 for pleasant wisdom from jewel and all pleasure not be like in/on/with her
For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.
12 I wisdom to dwell craftiness and knowledge plot to find
I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
13 fear LORD to hate bad: evil pride and pride and way: conduct bad: evil and lip: word perversity to hate
To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
14 to/for me counsel and wisdom I understanding to/for me might
Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight and strength.
15 in/on/with me king to reign and to rule to decree righteousness
By me kings reign, and rulers enact just laws;
16 in/on/with me ruler to rule and noble all to judge (righteousness *LH)
By me princes rule, and all nobles who govern justly.
17 I (to love: lover me *QK) to love: lover and to seek me to find me
I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.
18 riches and glory with me substance surpassing and righteousness
With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth 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, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.
20 in/on/with way righteousness to go: walk in/on/with midst path justice
I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
21 to/for to inherit to love: lover me there and treasure their to fill
bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.
22 LORD to buy me first: beginning way: conduct his front: old work his from the past
The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
23 from forever: antiquity to install from head: first from front: old land: country/planet
From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.
24 in/on/with nothing abyss to twist: give birth in/on/with nothing spring to honor: many water
When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing 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, I was brought forth,
26 till not to make land: country/planet and outside and head: first dust world
before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth.
27 in/on/with to establish: establish he heaven there I in/on/with to decree he circle upon face: surface abyss
I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed 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
when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
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 set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, 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 a skilled craftsman at His side, and His delight day by day, rejoicing always in His presence.
31 to laugh in/on/with world land: country/planet his and delight my with son: child man
I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in 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, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
33 to hear: hear discipline: instruction and be wise and not to neglect
Listen to instruction and be wise; do not ignore it.
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 who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
35 for to find me (to find *QK) life and to promote acceptance from LORD
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
36 and to sin me to injure soul: myself his all to hate me to love: lover death
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
