The Book of Proverbs

Chapter-8

Proverbs 8:1 Does not wisdom call out, and prudence bestow her voice?

 

Proverbs 8:2 At the summits and the tops of exalted places, standing above the ways, in the midst of the paths,

 

Proverbs 8:3 beside the gates of the city, at the very doors, she speaks, saying:

 

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

 

Proverbs 8:5 O little ones, understand discernment. And you who are unwise, turn your souls.

 

Proverbs 8:6 Listen, for I will speak about great things, and my lips will be opened, so as to foretell what is right.

 

Proverbs 8:7 My throat shall practice truth, and my lips shall detest the impious.

 

Proverbs 8:8 All my words are just. There is no depravity in them, and no perversity.

 

Proverbs 8:9 They are upright to those who understand, and equitable to those who discover knowledge.

 

Proverbs 8:10 Accept my discipline, and not money. Choose the doctrine that is greater than gold.

 

Proverbs 8:11 For wisdom is better than all that is most precious, and everything that is desirable cannot compare to her.

 

Proverbs 8:12 I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and I am inside learned thoughts.

 

Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the Lord hates evil. I detest arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.

 

Proverbs 8:14 Counsel is mine, and equity. Prudence is mine. Strength is mine.

 

Proverbs 8:15 Through me, kings reign and legislators decree just conditions.

 

Proverbs 8:16 Through me, princes rule and the powerful decree justice.

 

Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me. And those who stand watch for me until morning shall discover me.

 

Proverbs 8:18 With me, are wealth and glory, superb riches and justice.

 

Proverbs 8:19 For my fruit is better than gold and precious stones, and my progeny better than choice silver.

 

Proverbs 8:20 I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,

 

Proverbs 8:21 so that I may enrich those who love me, and thus complete their treasures.

 

Proverbs 8:22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made anything, from the beginning.

 

Proverbs 8:23 I was ordained from eternity, and out of antiquity, before the earth was formed.

 

Proverbs 8:24 The abyss did not yet exist, and I was already conceived; neither had the fountains of waters yet erupted.

 

Proverbs 8:25 The mountains, with their great mass, had not yet been established. Before the hills, I was brought forth.

 

Proverbs 8:26 Still he had not made the earth, and the rivers, and the poles of the globe of the earth.

 

Proverbs 8:27 I was already present: when he prepared the heavens; when, with a certain law and a circuit, he fortified the abyss;

 

Proverbs 8:28 when he made firm the sky above, and set free the fountains of waters;

 

Proverbs 8:29 when he encompassed the sea within its limits, and laid down a law for the waters, lest they transgress their limits; when he weighed the foundations of the earth.

 

Proverbs 8:30 I was with him in composing all things. And I was delighted, throughout every day, by playing in his sight at all times,

 

Proverbs 8:31 playing in globe of the earth. And my delight was to be with the sons of men.

 

Proverbs 8:32 Therefore, sons, hear me now. Blessed are those who preserve my ways.

 

Proverbs 8:33 Listen to discipline, and become wise, and do not be willing to cast it aside.

 

Proverbs 8:34 Blessed is the man who listens to me, and who stands watch at my gates everyday, and who observes at the posts of my doors.

 

Proverbs 8:35 He who finds me, finds life, and he will draw salvation from the Lord.

 

Proverbs 8:36 But he who sins against me will wound his own soul. All who hate me love death.”