LEB - Proverbs - 8

8:1  Does not wisdom call, and understanding raise its voice?

8:2  ⌞Atop the heights⌟ beside the road, at the crossroads she stands.

8:3  Beside gates, before towns, at the entrance of doors, she cries out:

8:4  “To you, O ⌞people⌟, I call, and my cry is to the children of humankind.

8:5  Learn prudence, O simple ones; fools, learn ⌞intelligence⌟.

8:6  Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips.

8:7  My mouth will utter truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

8:8  All sayings of my mouth are in righteousness; none of them are twisted and crooked.

8:9  All of them are straight to him who understands, and upright to those who find knowledge.

8:10  Take my teaching and not silver; may you choose knowledge rather than choice gold.

8:11  For wisdom is better than jewels, and all desires shall not compare with her.

8:12  I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.

8:13  The fear of Yahweh is hatred of evil, pride, and arrogance and an evil way. And I hate a mouth of perversity.

8:14  ⌞Advice and sound judgment⌟ are mine; I am understanding, ⌞strength is mine⌟.

8:15  By me kings reign, and rulers decree righteousness.

8:16  By me rulers rule, and nobles—all judges of righteousness.

8:17  I love ⌞those who love me⌟, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.

8:18  Fortune and glory are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.

8:19  My fruit is better than gold, even refined gold, and my yield than choice silver.

8:20  In the way of righteousness I walk, in the midst of paths of justice,

8:21  in order to endow those who love me with wealth, and I will fill their treasuries.

8:22  “Yahweh possessed me, the first of his ways, before his acts ⌞of old⌟.

8:23  From eternity, I was set up from the first, from the beginning of the earth.

8:24  When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs of ⌞abounding⌟ water.

8:25  Before mountains had been shaped, before hills, I was brought forth.

8:26  When he had not yet made earth and fields, or the first dust of the world,

8:27  ⌞when he established⌟ the heavens, there I was, ⌞when he drew⌟ a circle upon the face of the deep,

8:28  ⌞when he made⌟ skies from above, when he founded fountains of the deep,

8:29  ⌞when he assigned⌟ his limits to the sea, that waters shall not transgress his ⌞command⌟, ⌞when he marked⌟ the foundations of the earth,

8:30  I was ⌞beside⌟ him, a master workman, and I was delighting day by day, rejoicing before him ⌞always⌟,

8:31  rejoicing in the world of his earth, and my delight was with the children of humankind.

8:32  “And now, children, listen to me; happy are those who will keep my ways.

8:33  Hear teaching and be wise; do not neglect it.

8:34  Happy is the person who listens to me, in order to keep watch at my doors day by day, in order to guard the frames of my entrances.

8:35  For he who finds me is he who finds life, and he obtains favor from Yahweh.

8:36  But he who misses me injures himself. All those who hate me love death.”