Proverbs 8:1
Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice?
Proverbs 8:2
On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.
Proverbs 8:3
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she cries aloud:
Proverbs 8:4
To you, O men, I call. And my voice is to the sons of men.
Proverbs 8:5
O ye simple, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.
Proverbs 8:6
Hear, for I will speak excellent things. And the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Proverbs 8:7
For my mouth shall utter truth. And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Proverbs 8:8
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
Proverbs 8:9
They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.
Proverbs 8:10
Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Proverbs 8:11
For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Proverbs 8:12
I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling, and find out knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 8:14
Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge. I am understanding, I have might.
Proverbs 8:15
By me kings reign, and rulers decree justice.
Proverbs 8:16
By me rulers rule, and ranking men, even all the judges of the earth.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.
Proverbs 8:18
Riches and honor are with me, durable wealth and righteousness.
Proverbs 8:19
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold, and my revenue than choice silver.
Proverbs 8:20
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice,
Proverbs 8:21
that I may cause those who love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their treasuries.
Proverbs 8:22
Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Proverbs 8:23
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was,
Proverbs 8:24
when there were no depths. I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water,
Proverbs 8:25
before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought forth
Proverbs 8:26
while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
Proverbs 8:27
When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
Proverbs 8:28
when he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong,
Proverbs 8:29
when he gave to the sea its bound that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
Proverbs 8:30
then I was by him, a master workman. And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him,
Proverbs 8:31
rejoicing in his habitable earth. And my delight was with the sons of men.
Proverbs 8:32
Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me. For blessed are those who keep my ways.
Proverbs 8:33
Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.
Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Proverbs 8:35
For he who finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of Jehovah.
Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.