Proverbs 8:1 - Prayer Tents

The Commendation of Wisdom

8Does not wisdom call, And understanding lift up her voice?H2451H7121H8394H5414H6963 2On top of the heights beside the way, Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;H5324H7218H4791H1870H1004H5410 3Beside the gates, at the opening to the city, At the entrance of the doors, she cries out:H7442H3027H8179H6310H7176H3996H6607 4"To you, O men, I call, And my voice is to the sons of men.H376H7121H6963H1121H120 5"O naive ones, discern prudence; And, O fools, discern wisdom.H6612H995H6195H3684H995H3820 6"Listen, for I shall speak noble things; And the opening of my lips [ will produce] right things.H8085H1696H5057H4669H8193H4339 7"For my mouth will utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.H2441H1897H571H7562H8441H8193 8"All the utterances of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverted in them.H561H6310H6664H6617H6141 9"They are all straightforward to him who understands, And right to those who find knowledge.H5228H995H3477H4672H1847 10"Take my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choicest gold.H3947H4148H3701H1847H977H2742 11"For wisdom is better than jewels; And all desirable things can not compare with her.H2451H2896H6443H2656H7737 12"I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, And I find knowledge [and] discretion.H2451H7931H6195H4672H1847H4209 13"The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way, And the perverted mouth, I hate.H3374H3068H8130H7451H1344H1347H7451H1870H8419H6310H8130 14"Counsel is mine and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine.H6098H8454H998H1369 15"By me kings reign, And rulers decree justice.H4428H4427H7336H2710H6664 16"By me princes rule, and nobles, All who judge rightly.H8269H8323H5081H8199H776 17"I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me will find me.H157H157H7836H4672 18"Riches and honor are with me, Enduring wealth and righteousness.H6239H3519H6276H1952H6666 19"My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold, And my yield than choicest silver.H6529H2896H2742H6337H8393H977H3701 20"I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice,H1980H734H6666H8432H5410H4941 21To endow those who love me with wealth, That I may fill their treasuries.H157H5157H3426H4390H214 22"The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old.H3068H7069H7225H1870H6924H4659 23"From everlasting I was established, From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.H5258H5769H7218H6924H776 24"When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.H8415H2342H4599H3513H4325 25"Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth;H2022H2883H6440H1389H2342 26While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world.H6213H776H2351H7218H6083H8398 27"When He established the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,H3559H8064H2710H2329H6440H8415 28When He made firm the skies above, When the springs of the deep became fixed,H553H7834H4605H5810H5869H8415 29When He set for the sea its boundary, So that the water should not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth;H7760H3220H2706H4325H5674H6310H2710H4144H776 30Then I was beside Him, [as] a master workman; And I was daily [His] delight, Rejoicing always before Him,H681H525H3117H3117H8191H7832H6256H6440 31Rejoicing in the world, His earth, And [having] my delight in the sons of men.H7832H8398H776H8191H1121H120 32"Now therefore, [O] sons, listen to me, For blessed are they who keep my ways.H8085H1121H835H8104H1870 33"Heed instruction and be wise, And do not neglect [it.]H8085H4148H2449H6544 34"Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my doorposts.H835H120H8085H8245H3117H3117H1817H8104H4201H6607 35"For he who finds me finds life, And obtains favor from the LORD.H4672H4672H4672H2416H6329H7522H3068 36"But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death."H2398H2554H5315H8130H157H4194