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PRO 8:1–8:36 ©

The Book of Proverbs 8

8What is wise is surely like a woman who calls out to everyone.

Indeed, what people should understand is surely like a woman who shouts to people.

2What is wise is like a woman who stands at the highest place along the crowded streets where everyone can hear her.

3What is wise is like a woman who cries out next to the gates at the entrance to a city.

4She proclaims: “I am calling out to all of you!

I am speaking to all people!

5You naive people must comprehend what is prudent.

You stupid people comprehend how to be discerning.

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

I will speak to you about what is right.

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

I detest speaking what is evil.

8Everything that I say is righteous.

I do not say anything that is false or deceptive.

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

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

10Choose what I instruct you instead of silver.

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

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

I am more valuable than anything you can desire.

12I am what is wise. I am related to what is prudent.

I enable someone to know what is discreet.

13Everyone who reverently fears Yahweh hates what is evil.

I hate it when people are proud or arrogant.

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

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

I am the wise things that you need to understand.

I strengthen people.

15I enable kings to rule well.

I enable rulers to make righteous laws.

16I enable princes to govern;

and I enable to govern every royal official who judges righteously.

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

Anyone who earnestly tries to become wise will succeed.

18I 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.

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

20I always do what is righteous and just

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

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

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

Indeed, he had me before he started doing that.

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

24I began to exist before the oceans existed

and before there were springs abounding with water.

25I began to exist before Yahweh made the mountains and before the hills existed.

26I began to exist before Yahweh made the land or the fields or the first particles of dirt on the earth.

27I existed when Yahweh made the sky

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

28I existed when Yahweh made the clouds above the earth,

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

29I existed when Yahweh set boundaries for the seas,

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

I existed when Yahweh made the boundaries of the land.

30At that time I was like someone beside Yahweh who helped him create everything.

I made him happy every day.

I was always rejoicing when I was with him.

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

I was also happy with the people he had made.

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

Do this because anyone who behaves wisely will be happy.

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

Accept what I teach you!

34People who listen to me will be happy,

They are eager to listen to me like people who wait for me at the door of my house every day.

They are like people who diligently wait for me at my doorway.

35This is true because people who learn to be wise will live a long time,

and Yahweh will approve of them.

36But those who refuse to be wise hurt themselves.

All those who hate to be wise are like people who love death.”

PRO 8:1–8:36 ©

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