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⌂ ← PRO 8:1–8:36 → ║ ©

The Book of Proverbs 8

8 Imagine that everything that is wise is a woman. Surely such a woman calls out to everyone.

Indeed, imagine that everything that people should understand is a woman.

Surely such a woman shouts these things to people.

2 Imagine that this woman stands at the highest place next to the crowded crossroads where everyone can hear her.

3 Imagine that this woman shouts loudly beside the gates at the entrance to a city.

4 Imagine that she proclaims: “I am calling out to all of you!

I am speaking to all people!

5 You naive people must learn to be prudent.

You foolish people must learn how to be discerning.

6 Listen to what I say, because I will tell you some excellent things.

I will speak to you about what is right.

7 Listen to what I say because I speak what is true.

I detest speaking what is evil.

8 Everything that I say is honest.

I do not say anything that is false or that deceives people.

9 Everything that I say is plain for people who understand.

Everything that I say is right to people who have become knowledgeable.

10 Choose to learn what I instruct you instead of silver.

Indeed, choose to learn what you should know instead of the finest gold.

11 Do this because I, wisdom, am more valuable than precious jewels.

I, wisdom, am more valuable than anything you can desire.

12 I am what is wise. I am a close relative to what is prudent.

I enable people to know what is discreet.

13 Everyone who reverently fears Yahweh hates what is evil.

I, what is wise, hate it when people are proud or arrogant.

I hate it when people act wickedly and when people speak perversely.

14 I advise people well and enable them to be truly wise.

I am what you need to understand.

I strengthen people.

15 I enable kings to rule well.

I enable rulers to make righteous laws.

16 I enable princes and nobles to govern well.

I enable every royal official who judges righteously to do so.

17 I am what is wise, and I benefit anyone who loves me.

Anyone who earnestly tries to become wise will succeed.

18 I enable people to become rich and I cause people to honor those people.

I enable people to have riches that will last and I enable people to become righteous.

19 What I can give people is more valuable than even the purest gold and the best silver.

20 I always do what is righteous and just

21 in order to give property to people who love me.

I will fill up the places where they store valuable items.

22 Yahweh had me, what is wise, when he began to create everything.

Indeed, he had me before he started doing that.

23 Yahweh established me a very long time ago—at the very beginning, before the world existed.

24 Yahweh revealed me before the oceans existed

and before there were springs abounding with water.

25 Yahweh revealed me before he made the mountains and before he made the hills.

26 Yahweh revealed me before he made the land or the fields or the first particles of dirt on the earth.

27 I was there when Yahweh made the sky,

and when he made the boundary between the sky and the ocean’s surface.

28 I was there when Yahweh made the clouds above the earth,

and when he made the springs flow at the bottom of the ocean.

29 I was there when Yahweh set boundaries for the seas,

so that the water in the seas would not go past the boundaries that he commanded.

I was there when Yahweh made the parts supporting the dry land.

30 At that time I was like someone who was beside Yahweh, skillfully helping him to create everything.

I made him happy every day.

I was always rejoicing when I was with him.

31 I was rejoicing in the whole world that Yahweh had made.

I was also happy with the people he had made.

32 So now, children, pay attention to what I say!

Do this because anyone who obeys my teachings will be happy.

33 Listen to what I teach you, so that you will become wise.

Think about what I teach you!

34 People who listen to me will be happy.

People who are as eager to listen to me as if they were waiting for me at the door of my house every day

and watching for me to come out will be happy.

35 This is true because people who learn to be wise will live well,

and Yahweh will approve of them.

36 But those who refuse to be wise hurt themselves.

All those who hate to be wise act like they are people who would love to die.”

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