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| | The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) | The Basic English Online Bible (BAS) |
| Proverbs 8:1 | Doth not wisdom call? And understanding give forth her voice? | Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding? |
| Proverbs 8:2 | At the head of high places by the way, Between the paths she hath stood, | At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place; |
| Proverbs 8:3 | At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she crieth aloud, | Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud: |
| Proverbs 8:4 | `Unto you, O men, I call, And my voice [is] unto the sons of men. | I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men. |
| Proverbs 8:5 | Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart, | Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart. |
| Proverbs 8:6 | Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips [is] uprightness. | Give ear, for my words are true, and my lips are open to give out what is upright. |
| Proverbs 8:7 | For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips [is] wickedness. | For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me. |
| Proverbs 8:8 | In righteousness [are] all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse. | All the words of my mouth are righteousness; there is nothing false or twisted in them. |
| Proverbs 8:9 | All of them [are] plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge. | They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge. |
| Proverbs 8:10 | Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold. | Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold. |
| Proverbs 8:11 | For better [is] wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it. | For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her. |
| Proverbs 8:12 | I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out. | I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes. |
| Proverbs 8:13 | The fear of Jehovah [is] to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated. | The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me. |
| Proverbs 8:14 | Mine [is] counsel and substance, I [am] understanding, I have might. | Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine. |
| Proverbs 8:15 | By me kings reign, and princes decree righteousness, | Through me kings have their power, and rulers give right decisions. |
| Proverbs 8:16 | By me do chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of the earth. | Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness. |
| Proverbs 8:17 | I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me. | Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me. |
| Proverbs 8:18 | Wealth and honour [are] with me, Lasting substance and righteousness. | Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness. |
| Proverbs 8:19 | Better [is] my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver. | My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver. |
| Proverbs 8:20 | In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment, | I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging: |
| Proverbs 8:21 | To cause my lovers to inherit substance, Yea, their treasures I fill. | So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full. |
| Proverbs 8:22 | Jehovah possessed me the beginning of His way, Before His works since then. | The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past. |
| Proverbs 8:23 | From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth. | From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was. |
| Proverbs 8:24 | In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy [with] waters, | When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water. |
| Proverbs 8:25 | Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth. | Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth: |
| Proverbs 8:26 | While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world. | When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world. |
| Proverbs 8:27 | In His preparing the heavens I [am] there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep, | When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep: |
| Proverbs 8:28 | In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep, | When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed: |
| Proverbs 8:29 | In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth, | When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth: |
| Proverbs 8:30 | Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times, | Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times; |
| Proverbs 8:31 | Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights [are] with the sons of men. | Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men. |
| Proverbs 8:32 | And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways. | Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways. |
| Proverbs 8:33 | Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not. | Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go. |
| Proverbs 8:34 | O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance. | Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house. |
| Proverbs 8:35 | For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah. | For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him. |
| Proverbs 8:36 | And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death! | But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death. |
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