LITV - Proverbs - 8

8:1  Does not wisdom call? And does not understanding speak?

8:2  She stands in the top of high places, by the wayside, in the houses of the paths,

8:3  beside the gates; before the entrance of the city, at the doors, she cries.

8:4  I call to you, O men, and my voice is to the sons of men.

8:5  Understand wisdom, simple ones; and fools, be of an understanding heart.

8:6  Hear, for I will speak of excellent things, and from the opening of my lips shall be right things.

8:7  For my mouth shall speak of truth, and wickedness is hateful to my lips.

8:8  All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; nothing crooked or perverse is in them;

8:9  they are all plain to the understanding one; and right to those who find knowledge.

8:10  Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge, rather than choice gold.

8:11  For wisdom is better than jewels, and all delights cannot be compared to it.

8:12  I, wisdom, dwell with sense, and I find knowledge of discretions.

8:13  The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; I hate pride and loftiness, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

8:14  Counsel and sound wisdom are mine; I am understanding; I have strength.

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

8:16  Rulers and nobles rule by me, and all the judges of the earth.

8:17  I love those who love me, and those who seek me early find me.

8:18  Riches and honor are with me; enduring wealth and righteousness.

8:19  My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my increase is better than the best silver.

8:20  I walk in the path of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice;

8:21  to cause those who love me to inherit wealth, and I will fill up their treasuries.

8:22  Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of His way, from then, before His works.

8:23  I was set up from everlasting, from that which was before the earth.

8:24  When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no springs heavy with water.

8:25  Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth;

8:26  before He had made the earth and the fields, or the highest part of the dust of the world.

8:27  When He prepared the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle on the face of the deep,

8:28  when He set the clouds above, when He made the strong fountains of the deep,

8:29  when He gave to the sea its limit, that the waters should not beyond His command; when He decreed the foundations of the earth,

8:30  then I was at His side, like a master workman; and I was His delights day by day, rejoicing before Him at every time;

8:31  rejoicing in the world, His earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.

8:32  And now listen to me, O sons, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

8:33  Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.

8:34  Blessed is the man listening to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

8:35  For whoever finds me finds life, and he shall obtain favor from Jehovah.

8:36  But he who sins against me does violence to his own soul; all who hate me love death.