en_wbms - Pro 8 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Whether wisdom crieth not oft; and prudence giveth her voice?

² In most sovereign and high tops, above the way, in the midst of paths,

³ and it standeth beside the gates of the city, in those enclosings, and speaketh, and saith,

⁴ A! ye men, I cry oft to you; and my voice is to the sons of men.

⁵ Little children, that is, little of wit, understand ye wisdom; and ye unwise men, perceiveth in heart.

⁶ Hear ye, for I shall speak of great things; and my lips shall be opened, to preach rightful [or even] things.

⁷ My throat shall bethink truth; and my lips shall curse a wicked man.

⁸ My words be just; no shrewd thing, neither wayward is in those.

⁹ They be rightful [or right] to them that understand; and they be even to them that find knowing.

¹⁰ Take ye my chastising [or my discipline], and not money; choose ye teaching, more than treasure.

¹¹ For wisdom is better than all riches most precious; and all desirable thing may not be comparisoned thereto.

¹² I, wisdom, dwell in counsel; and I am among learned thoughts.

¹³ The dread of the Lord hateth evil; I curse boast, and pride, and a shrewd way, and a double-tongued mouth.

¹⁴ Counsel is mine, and equity; prudence is mine, and strength.

¹⁵ Kings reign by me; and makers of laws deem just things by me.

¹⁶ Princes command by me; and mighty men deem rightfulness [or rightwiseness] by me.

¹⁷ I love them that love me; and they that wake early to me, shall find me.

¹⁸ With me be riches, and glory; sovereign riches, and rightfulness [or rightwiseness].

¹⁹ My fruit is better than gold, and precious stone; and my seeds [or my burgeonings] be better than chosen silver.

²⁰ I go in the ways of rightfulness [or rightwiseness], in the midst of the paths of doom;

²¹ that I make rich them that love me, and that I fill their treasures or their treasuries.

²² The Lord wielded me in the beginning of his ways; before that he made anything, at the beginning.

²³ From without beginning I was ordained; and from eld [or old] times, before that the earth was made.

²⁴ [The] Depths of waters were not yet; and I was conceived then. The wells of waters had not broken out yet,

²⁵ and hills stood not altogether yet by firm heaviness; before little hills I was born.

²⁶ Yet he had not made [the] earth; and floods, and the earths of the world.

²⁷ When he made ready heavens, I was present; when he compassed [or enclosed] the depths of waters by certain law and compass.

²⁸ When he made steadfast the air above; and weighed the wells of waters.

²⁹ When he compassed to the sea his mark; and setted [or put] law to waters, that they should not pass their coasts. When he weighed the foundaments of [the] earth;

³⁰ I was making all things with him. And I delighted by all days, and played before him in all time,

³¹ and I played in the world; and my delights be to be with the sons of men.

³² Now, therefore, sons, hear ye me; blessed be they that keep my ways.

³³ Hear ye teaching, and be ye wise men; and do not ye cast it away.

³⁴ Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth at my gates all day; and keepeth [or waiteth] at the posts of my door[s].

³⁵ He that findeth me, shall find life; and he shall draw health of the Lord.

³⁶ But he that sinneth against me shall hurt his soul; all that hate me, love death.