Proverbs 8
1 not wisdom to call: call out and understanding to give: cry out voice her
Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?
2 in/on/with head: top height upon way: road place path to stand
On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.
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 entry doors, she cries aloud:
4 to(wards) you man to call: call out and voice my to(wards) son: child man
"To you men, I call. I send my voice to the sons of humankind.
5 to understand simple craftiness and fool to understand heart
You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be 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. The opening of my lips is for right things.
7 for truth: true to mutter palate my and abomination lips my wickedness
For my mouth speaks truth. 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 who understands, right 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 rather than silver; 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. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.
12 I wisdom to dwell craftiness and knowledge plot to find
"I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. 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. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
14 to/for me counsel and wisdom I understanding to/for me might
Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
15 in/on/with me king to reign and to rule to decree righteousness
By me kings reign, and rulers decree justice.
16 in/on/with me ruler to rule and noble all to judge (righteousness *LH)
By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.
17 I (to love: lover me *QK) to love: lover and to seek me to find me
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
18 riches and glory with me substance surpassing and righteousness
With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.
19 pleasant fruit my from gold and from pure gold and produce my from silver: money to choose
My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield 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 justice;
21 to/for to inherit to love: lover me there and treasure their to fill
That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.
22 LORD to buy me first: beginning way: conduct his front: old work his from the past
"The LORD created 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, before the earth existed.
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 springs 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 in place, before the hills, I was 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 on the surface 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 springs 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 boundary, that the waters should not violate 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 the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,
31 to laugh in/on/with world land: country/planet his and delight my with son: child man
Rejoicing in his whole world. 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, son, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
33 to hear: hear discipline: instruction and be wise and not to neglect
Hear instruction, and be wise. Do not refuse 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 hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
35 for to find me (to find *QK) life and to promote acceptance from LORD
For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from the LORD.
36 and to sin me to injure soul: myself his all to hate me to love: lover death
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."
