Proverbs 8
1 not wisdom to call: call out and understanding to give: cry out voice her
You shall proclaim wisdom, that understanding may be obedient to you.
2 in/on/with head: top height upon way: road place path to stand
For she is on lofty eminences, and stands in the midst of the ways.
3 to/for hand: to gate to/for lip: edge town entrance entrance to sing
For she sits by the gates of princes, and sings in the entrances, [saying],
4 to(wards) you man to call: call out and voice my to(wards) son: child man
You, O men, I exhort; and utter my voice to the sons of men.
5 to understand simple craftiness and fool to understand heart
O you simple, understand subtlety, and you that are untaught, imbibe knowledge.
6 to hear: hear for leader to speak: speak and opening lips my uprightness
Listen to me; for I will speak solemn [truths]; and will produce right [sayings] from my lips.
7 for truth: true to mutter palate my and abomination lips my wickedness
For my throat shall meditate truth; and false lips are an abomination before me.
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 in them wrong or perverse.
9 all their straightforward to/for to understand and upright to/for to find knowledge
They are all evident to those that understand, and right to those that find knowledge.
10 to take: take discipline: instruction my and not silver: money and knowledge from gold to choose
Receive instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than tried gold.
11 for pleasant wisdom from jewel and all pleasure not be like in/on/with her
For wisdom is better than precious stones; and no valuable substance is of equal worth with it.
12 I wisdom to dwell craftiness and knowledge plot to find
I wisdom have lived [with] counsel and knowledge, and I have called upon understanding.
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 hates unrighteousness, and insolence, and pride, and the ways of wicked men; and I hate the perverse ways of bad men.
14 to/for me counsel and wisdom I understanding to/for me might
Counsel and safety are mine; prudence is mine, and strength is mine.
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 nobles become great, and monarchs by me rule over the earth.
17 I (to love: lover me *QK) to love: lover and to seek me to find me
I love those that love me; and they that seek me shall find [me].
18 riches and glory with me substance surpassing and righteousness
Wealth and glory belong to me; yes, abundant possessions and righteousness.
19 pleasant fruit my from gold and from pure gold and produce my from silver: money to choose
[It is] better to have my fruit than [to have] gold and precious stones; and my produce is better than choice silver.
20 in/on/with way righteousness to go: walk in/on/with midst path justice
I walk in ways of righteousness, and [am] conversant with the paths of judgement;
21 to/for to inherit to love: lover me there and treasure their to fill
that I may divide substance to them that love me, and may fill their treasures with good things. If I declare to you the things that daily happen, I will remember [also] to recount the things of old.
22 LORD to buy me first: beginning way: conduct his front: old work his from the past
The Lord made me the beginning of his ways for his works.
23 from forever: antiquity to install from head: first from front: old land: country/planet
He established me before time [was] in the beginning, before he made the earth:
24 in/on/with nothing abyss to twist: give birth in/on/with nothing spring to honor: many water
even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth:
25 in/on/with before mountain: mount to sink to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
before the mountains were settled, and before all hills, he begets me.
26 till not to make land: country/planet and outside and head: first dust world
The Lord made countries and uninhabited [tracks], and the highest inhabited parts 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 prepared the heaven, I was present with him; and when he prepared his throne upon the winds:
28 in/on/with to strengthen he cloud from above in/on/with be strong spring abyss
and when he strengthened the clouds above; and when he secured the fountains of the earth:
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
decree. and when he strengthened 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
I was by him, suiting [myself to him], I was that wherein he took delight; and daily I rejoiced in his presence continually.
31 to laugh in/on/with world land: country/planet his and delight my with son: child man
For he rejoiced when he had completed the world, and rejoiced amongst the children of men.
32 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and blessed way: conduct my to keep: obey
Now then, [my] son, hear me: blessed is the man who shall listen to me, and the mortal who shall keep my ways;
33 to hear: hear discipline: instruction and be wise and not to neglect
[Hear wisdom and be wise, and be not strangers to 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
watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my entrances.
35 for to find me (to find *QK) life and to promote acceptance from LORD
For my outgoings are the outgoings of life, and [in them] is prepared favour from the Lord.
36 and to sin me to injure soul: myself his all to hate me to love: lover death
But they that sin against me act wickedly against their own souls: and they that hate me love death.
