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Proverbs 8
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
On the top of high places by the way,
On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand.
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city,
Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:
You simple, understand prudence!
O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.
Hear, for I will speak excellent things.
Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right.
For my mouth speaks truth.
For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness.
All the words of my mouth are righteous; none are crooked or perverse.
They are all plain to him who understands,
They are all plain to the discerning, and upright to those who find knowledge.
Receive my instruction rather than silver,
Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
For wisdom is better than rubies.
For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.
“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling.
I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil.
To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
Counsel and sound knowledge are mine.
Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight and strength.
By me princes rule,
By me princes rule, and all nobles who govern justly (note: Some Hebrew manuscripts and LXX who govern the earth).
My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold,
My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.
I walk in the way of righteousness,
I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
that I may give wealth to those who love me.
bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.
“The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his work,
The LORD created me as His first course (note: Or The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way), before His works of old.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.
When there were no depths, I was born,
When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.
Before the mountains were settled in place,
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,
while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,
before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth.
When he established the heavens, I was there.
I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
when he established the clouds above,
when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
when he gave to the sea its boundary,
when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
then I was the craftsman by his side.
Then I was a skilled craftsman at His side, and His delight (note: Or filled with His delight) day by day, rejoicing always in His presence.
rejoicing in his whole world.
I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in the sons of men.
“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me,
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
Blessed is the man who hears me,
Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
For whoever finds me finds life,
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul.
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”