Rotherham - Proverbs - 8

8:1  Doth not, wisdom, cry aloud? and, understanding, send forth her voice?

8:2  At the top of the high places above the way, at the place where paths meet, she taketh her stand:

8:3  Beside the gates, at the entrance of the city,—at the going in of the openings, she shouteth:—

8:4  Unto you, O men, I call, and, my voice, is unto the sons of men;

8:5  Understand, ye simple ones, shrewdness, and, ye dullards understand sense;

8:6  Hear, for, princely things, will I speak, and the opening of my lips shall be of equity;

8:7  For, faithfulness, shall my mouth softly utter, but, the abomination of my lips, shall be lawlessness;

8:8  In righteousness, shall be all the sayings of my mouth, nothing therein, shall be crafty or perverse;

8:9  All of them, shall be plain, to them who would understand, and just, to such as would gain knowledge.

8:10  Receive my correction, and not silver, and knowledge, rather than choicest gold.

8:11  For better is wisdom, than ornaments of coral, and, no delightful things, can equal her.

8:12  I, wisdom, inhabit shrewdness,—and, the knowledge of sagacious things, I gain.

8:13  The reverence of Yahweh, is to hate wickedness: pride, arrogance, and the way of wickedness; And a mouth of perverse things, do I hate.

8:14  Mine, are counsel, and effective working, I, am understanding, mine, is valour:

8:15  By me, kings reign, and dignitaries decree righteousness;

8:16  By me, rulers govern, and nobles—all the righteous judges:

8:17  I love, them who love me, and, they who diligently seek me, find me:

8:18  Riches and honour, are with me, lordly wealth, and righteousness;

8:19  Better is my fruit, than gold—yea fine gold, and mine increase, than choice silver;

8:20  In the way of righteousness, I march along, in the middle of the paths of justice:

8:21  That I may cause them who love me to inherit substance, and, their treasuries, I may fill.

8:22  Yahweh, had constituted me the beginning of his way, before his works, at the commencement of that time;

8:23  At the outset of the ages, had I been established, in advance of the antiquities of the earth;

8:24  When there was no resounding deep, I had been brought forth, when there were no fountains, abounding with water;

8:25  Ere yet the mountains had been settled, before the hills, had I been brought forth;

8:26  Or ever he had made the land and the wastes, or the top of the dry parts of the world:

8:27  When he prepared the heavens, there, was I! When he decreed a vault upon the face of the resounding deep;

8:28  When he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the resounding deep, waxed strong;

8:29  When he fixed for the sea its bound, that, the waters, should not go beyond his bidding, when he decreed the foundations of the earth:—

8:30  Then became I beside him, a firm and sure worker, then became I filled with delight, day by day, exulting before him on every occasion;

8:31  Exulting in the fruitful land of his earth, Yea, my fulness of delight, was with the sons of men.

8:32  Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, for how happy are they who, to my ways, pay regard!

8:33  Hear ye correction, and be wise, and do not neglect.

8:34  How happy the man that doth hearken to me,—keeping guard at my doors, day by day, watching at the posts of my gates;

8:35  For, he that findeth me, findeth life, and hath obtained favour from Yahweh;

8:36  But, he that misseth me, wrongeth his own soul, all who hate me, love death.