8Proverbs 8

1Doth not wisdom call? And understanding give forth her voice?Select Proverbs 8:1

2At the head of high places by the way, Between the paths she hath stood,Select Proverbs 8:2

3At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she crieth aloud,Select Proverbs 8:3

4`Unto you, O men, I call, And my voice is unto the sons of men.Select Proverbs 8:4

5Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,Select Proverbs 8:5

6Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips is uprightness.Select Proverbs 8:6

7For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness.Select Proverbs 8:7

8In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.Select Proverbs 8:8

9All of them are plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.Select Proverbs 8:9

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

11For better is wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.Select Proverbs 8:11

12I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out.Select Proverbs 8:12

13The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.Select Proverbs 8:13

14Mine is counsel and substance, I am understanding, I have might.Select Proverbs 8:14

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

16By me do chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of the earth.Select Proverbs 8:16

17I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me.Select Proverbs 8:17

18Wealth and honour are with me, Lasting substance and righteousness.Select Proverbs 8:18

19Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.Select Proverbs 8:19

20In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,Select Proverbs 8:20

21To cause my lovers to inherit substance, Yea, their treasures I fill.Select Proverbs 8:21

22Jehovah possessed me--the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.Select Proverbs 8:22

23From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.Select Proverbs 8:23

24In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy with waters,Select Proverbs 8:24

25Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.Select Proverbs 8:25

26While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.Select Proverbs 8:26

27In His preparing the heavens I am there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,Select Proverbs 8:27

28In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,Select Proverbs 8:28

29In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,Select Proverbs 8:29

30Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight--day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,Select Proverbs 8:30

31Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights are with the sons of men.Select Proverbs 8:31

32And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways.Select Proverbs 8:32

33Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not.Select Proverbs 8:33

34O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance.Select Proverbs 8:34

35For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.Select Proverbs 8:35

36And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!Select Proverbs 8:36