Proverbs - Chapter 8 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Listen! Wisdom is calling out. Reason is making herself heard.
  • 2. On the hilltops near the road and at the crossroads she stands.
  • 3. At the entrance to the city, beside the gates, she calls:
  • 4. "I appeal to all of you; I call to everyone on earth.
  • 5. Are you immature? Learn to be mature. Are you foolish? Learn to have sense.
  • 6. Listen to my excellent words; all I tell you is right.
  • 7. What I say is the truth; lies are hateful to me.
  • 8. Everything I say is true; nothing is false or misleading.
  • 9. To those with insight, it is all clear; to the well-informed, it is all plain.
  • 10. Choose my instruction instead of silver; choose knowledge rather than the finest gold.
  • 11. "I am Wisdom, I am better than jewels; nothing you want can compare with me.
  • 12. I am Wisdom, and I have insight; I have knowledge and sound judgment.
  • 13. To honor the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil ways and false words.
  • 14. I make plans and carry them out. I have understanding, and I am strong.
  • 15. I help kings to govern and rulers to make good laws.
  • 16. Every ruler on earth governs with my help, officials and nobles alike.
  • 17. I love those who love me; whoever looks for me can find me.
  • 18. I have riches and honor to give, prosperity and success.
  • 19. What you get from me is better than the finest gold, better than the purest silver.
  • 20. I walk the way of righteousness; I follow the paths of justice,
  • 21. giving wealth to those who love me, filling their houses with treasures.
  • 22. "The LORD created me first of all, the first of his works, long ago.
  • 23. I was made in the very beginning, at the first, before the world began.
  • 24. I was born before the oceans, when there were no springs of water.
  • 25. I was born before the mountains, before the hills were set in place,
  • 26. before God made the earth and its fields or even the first handful of soil.
  • 27. I was there when he set the sky in place, when he stretched the horizon across the ocean,
  • 28. when he placed the clouds in the sky, when he opened the springs of the ocean
  • 29. and ordered the waters of the sea to rise no further than he said. I was there when he laid the earth's foundations.
  • 30. I was beside him like an architect, I was his daily source of joy, always happy in his presence---
  • 31. happy with the world and pleased with the human race.
  • 32. "Now, young people, listen to me. Do as I say, and you will be happy.
  • 33. Listen to what you are taught. Be wise; do not neglect it.
  • 34. Those who listen to me will be happy--- those who stay at my door every day, waiting at the entrance to my home.
  • 35. Those who find me find life, and the LORD will be pleased with them.
  • 36. Those who do not find me hurt themselves; anyone who hates me loves death."
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