1902 Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR)

Proverbs 8

1 The fame, 6 and evidency of wisdom. 1 The excellency, 12 the nature, 15 the power, 18 the riches, 22 and the eternity of wisdom. 32 Wisdom is to be desired for the blessedness it bringeth.

 8:1 ¶ Doth not, wisdom, cry aloud? and, understanding, send forth her voice?

 8:2 At the top of the high places above the way, at the place where paths meet, she taketh her stand:

 8:3 Beside the gates, at the entrance of the city,—at the going in of the openings, she shouteth:—

 8:4 Unto you, O men, I call, and, my voice, is unto the sons of men;

 8:5 Understand, ye simple ones, shrewdness, and, ye dullards understand sense;

 8:6 Hear, for, princely things, will I speak, and the opening of my lips shall be of equity;

 8:7 For, faithfulness, shall my mouth softly utter, but, the abomination of my lips, shall be lawlessness;

 8:8 In righteousness, shall be all the sayings of my mouth, nothing therein, shall be crafty or perverse;

 8:9 All of them, shall be plain, to them who would understand, and just, to such as would gain knowledge.

 8:10 Receive my correction, and not silver, and knowledge, rather than choicest gold.

 8:11 For better is wisdom, than ornaments of coral, and, no delightful things, can equal her.

 8:12 ¶ I, wisdom, inhabit shrewdness,—and, the knowledge of sagacious things, I gain.

 8:13 The reverence of Yahweh, is to hate wickedness: pride, arrogance, and the way of wickedness; And a mouth of perverse things, do I hate.

 8:14 Mine, are counsel, and effective working, I, am understanding, mine, is valour:

 8:15 By me, kings reign, and dignitaries decree righteousness;

 8:16 By me, rulers govern, and nobles—all the righteous judges:

 8:17 I, love, them who love me, and, they who diligently seek me, find me:

 8:18 Riches and honour, are with me, lordly wealth, and righteousness;

 8:19 Better is my fruit, than gold—yea fine gold, and mine increase, than choice silver;

 8:20 In the way of righteousness, I march along, in the middle of the paths of justice:

 8:21 That I may cause them who love me to inherit substance, and, their treasuries, I may fill.

 8:22 ¶ Yahweh, had constituted me the beginning of his way, before his works, at the commencement of that time;

 8:23 At the outset of the ages, had I been established, in advance of the antiquities of the earth;

 8:24 When there was no resounding deep, I had been brought forth, when there were no fountains, abounding with water;

 8:25 Ere yet the mountains had been settled, before the hills, had I been brought forth;

 8:26 Or ever he had made the land and the wastes, or the top of the dry parts of the world:

 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, there, was I! When he decreed a vault upon the face of the resounding deep;

 8:28 When he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the resounding deep, waxed strong;

 8:29 When he fixed for the sea its bound, that, the waters, should not go beyond his bidding, when he decreed the foundations of the earth:—

 8:30 Then became I beside him, a firm and sure worker, then became I filled with delight, day by day, exulting before him on every occasion;

 8:31 Exulting in the fruitful land of his earth, Yea, my fulness of delight, was with the sons of men.

 8:32 ¶ Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, for how happy are they who, to my ways, pay regard!

 8:33 Hear ye correction, and be wise, and do not neglect.

 8:34 How happy the man that doth hearken to me,—keeping guard at my doors, day by day, watching at the posts of my gates;

 8:35 For, he that findeth me, findeth life, and hath obtained favour from Yahweh;

 8:36 But, he that misseth me, wrongeth his own soul, all who hate me, love death.