Proverbs 8
1 not wisdom to call: call out and understanding to give: cry out voice her
Isn't wisdom calling? Isn't understanding raising her voice?
2 in/on/with head: top height upon way: road place path to stand
On the top of the hill by the road, she stands up at the crossroads.
3 to/for hand: to gate to/for lip: edge town entrance entrance to sing
Beside the gates of the town, right there at the entrance, she cries out:
4 to(wards) you man to call: call out and voice my to(wards) son: child man
“I'm calling out to you, everyone! My call is to everyone in the whole world!
5 to understand simple craftiness and fool to understand heart
If you're immature, learn how to grow up. If you're stupid, learn what makes good sense.
6 to hear: hear for leader to speak: speak and opening lips my uprightness
Listen to me because I have valuable things to explain to you.
7 for truth: true to mutter palate my and abomination lips my wickedness
I say what's right, because I tell the truth and I hate wickedness in all its forms.
8 in/on/with righteousness all word lip my nothing in/on/with them to twist and twisted
All the words I say are true; none are false or misleading.
9 all their straightforward to/for to understand and upright to/for to find knowledge
My words are straightforward to anyone with understanding; they are correct to those who have knowledge.
10 to take: take discipline: instruction my and not silver: money and knowledge from gold to choose
Choose my instruction over silver; choose knowledge over pure gold.
11 for pleasant wisdom from jewel and all pleasure not be like in/on/with her
For wisdom is more valuable than rubies; everything you could ever want just doesn't compare!
12 I wisdom to dwell craftiness and knowledge plot to find
I, wisdom, am at home with good decisions. I know how to find knowledge and discernment.
13 fear LORD to hate bad: evil pride and pride and way: conduct bad: evil and lip: word perversity to hate
Honoring the Lord means hating evil. So I hate pride and arrogance, wicked behavior and telling lies.
14 to/for me counsel and wisdom I understanding to/for me might
I have advice and good judgment; I know what makes sense, and I have power.
15 in/on/with me king to reign and to rule to decree righteousness
It's because of me that kings reign, and rulers issue fair decrees.
16 in/on/with me ruler to rule and noble all to judge (righteousness *LH)
It's because of me that leaders and nobles govern—all who rule 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 really look for me will find me.
18 riches and glory with me substance surpassing and righteousness
With me go riches and honor, lasting wealth and prosperity.
19 pleasant fruit my from gold and from pure gold and produce my from silver: money to choose
The fruit I produce is better than gold, even pure gold, and my harvest is better than even the best silver.
20 in/on/with way righteousness to go: walk in/on/with midst path justice
I live in a way that's right; I follow the paths of justice.
21 to/for to inherit to love: lover me there and treasure their to fill
I grant wealth to those who love me; I fill their treasure storehouses.
22 LORD to buy me first: beginning way: conduct his front: old work his from the past
The Lord created me first of all; I was made before anything else.
23 from forever: antiquity to install from head: first from front: old land: country/planet
I was formed a long time ago, at the first, before the world began.
24 in/on/with nothing abyss to twist: give birth in/on/with nothing spring to honor: many water
I was born when there were no ocean depths, when there were no springs pouring out water.
25 in/on/with before mountain: mount to sink to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
I was born before the mountains or the hills had been formed,
26 till not to make land: country/planet and outside and head: first dust world
when he hadn't made the earth and its fields or any of the earth's dust.
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 placed the heavens in position, when he drew the horizon over the ocean,
28 in/on/with to strengthen he cloud from above in/on/with be strong spring abyss
when he made the clouds in the sky above, when he created the springs of the oceans,
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 limits on the sea so that the waters would not go farther than he ordered, and when he laid 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 beside him as a master craftsman. I made him happy every day, and I was always full of joy in his presence.
31 to laugh in/on/with world land: country/planet his and delight my with son: child man
I was so happy in the world he created, celebrating together with human beings.
32 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and blessed way: conduct my to keep: obey
And now, my sons, listen to me, for happy are those who follow my ways.
33 to hear: hear discipline: instruction and be wise and not to neglect
Listen to my instruction and be wise—do not reject 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
Happy are those who listen to me, watching for me every day at my doors, waiting at my entrance way.
35 for to find me (to find *QK) life and to promote acceptance from LORD
For those who find me, find life, and are accepted by the Lord.
36 and to sin me to injure soul: myself his all to hate me to love: lover death
But those who don't find me hurt themselves; everyone who hates me loves death.”
