en_cjb - Pro 8 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Wisdom is calling! Understanding is raising her voice!

² On the heights along the road, where the paths meet, she is standing;

³ by the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries aloud:

⁴ “People, I am calling you, raising my voice to all mankind.

⁵ You who don’t direct your lives, understand caution; as for you, you fools, get some common sense!

⁶ “Listen! I will say worthwhile things; when I speak, my words are right.

⁷ My mouth says what is true, because my lips detest evil.

⁸ All the words from my mouth are righteous; nothing false or crooked is in them.

⁹ They are all clear to those who understand and straightforward to those who gain knowledge.

¹⁰ Receive my instruction, rather than silver; knowledge, rather than the finest gold.

¹¹ For wisdom is better than pearls; nothing you want can compare with her.

¹² “I, wisdom, live together with caution; I attain knowledge and discretion.

¹³ The fear of ADONAI is hatred of evil. I hate pride and arrogance, evil ways and duplicitous speech.

¹⁴ Good advice is mine, and common sense; I am insight, power is mine.

¹⁵ By me kings reign, and princes make just laws.

¹⁶ By me princes govern, nobles too, and all the earth’s rulers.

¹⁷ I love those who love me; and those who seek me will find me.

¹⁸ Riches and honor are with me, lasting wealth and righteousness.

¹⁹ My fruit is better than gold, fine gold, my produce better than the finest silver.

²⁰ I follow the course of righteousness along the paths of justice,

²¹ to endow with wealth those who love me and fill their treasuries.

²² “ADONAI made me as the beginning of his way, the first of his ancient works.

²³ I was appointed before the world, before the start, before the earth’s beginnings.

²⁴ When I was brought forth, there were no ocean depths, no springs brimming with water.

²⁵ I was brought forth before the hills, before the mountains had settled in place;

²⁶ he had not yet made the earth, the fields, or even the earth’s first grains of dust.

²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there. When he drew the horizon’s circle on the deep,

²⁸ when he set the skies above in place, when the fountains of the deep poured forth,

²⁹ when he prescribed boundaries for the sea, so that its water would not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

³⁰ I was with him as someone he could trust. For me, every day was pure delight, as I played in his presence all the time,.

³¹ playing everywhere on his earth, and delighting to be with humankind.

³² “Therefore, children, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.

³³ Hear instruction, and grow wise; do not refuse it.

³⁴ How happy the person who listens to me, who watches daily at my gates and waits outside my doors.

³⁵ For he who finds me finds life and obtains the favor of ADONAI.

³⁶ But he who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”