ProPr ProverbsProverbi, chaptercapitolo Proverbs of SolomonProverbi di Salomone, chaptercapitolo 8

Wisdom calls to us

It is as if wisdom, with great understanding of many things, is calling [PRS] out to people.Mat 11:19; 1Co 1:24

Wisdom stands on hilltops and at crossroads.

Wisdom also stands at the city gates and shouts loudly,

“I am calling to everyone!

I am shouting loudly to all people!

You people who do not know how to do things that are smart to do, get sound judgment;

you foolish people, get good understanding!Psa 92:6

Listen to me, because I have some excellent/important things to say.

What I say is what is fair/right.Mat 7:29

I speak what is true;

I detest speaking [MTY] what is false/deceptive.Jhn 8:46

Everything that I say is honest;

there is nothing that I say that deceives people.Psa 12:6

My words are clear to those who have good sense;

those who are wise know that what I say is right.

If someone offers you the kind of teaching I give or offers you silver,

choose my teaching.

If he offers to show you how to be wise or offers you gold,

choose to know how to be wise,Job 28:15; Pro 3:14

because wisdom is more valuable than jewels.

Nothing that you desire is as valuable as being wise.Job 28:16

I, wisdom, and understanding of what is smart to do, cannot be separated.

We are like two people who live in the same house.

I know how to be wise and how to make smart decisions.Luk 11:49

All the people who revere Yahweh hate evil.

I, wisdom, hate people who are proud and people who think they are more important than others.

I hate people who behave in an evil way and those who say things to deceive others.

I give people good advice and I enable them to do things that are wise.

I understand how things really are, and I am strong.

When kings are wise, they rule well;

and when rulers are wise, they make laws that are just/fair.Gen 49:10; Dan 2:21; Rom 13:1

Rulers govern their people with the help of me, wisdom,

and those who have authority decide things fairly/just with my help.

I, wisdom, love all those who love me,

and all those who truly seek me will find me.

I enable people to become rich and to be honored;

I enable them to have wealth that will last and to be successful.Pro 3:16

What I can give people is more valuable than fine/pure gold and the best silver.Job 28:17

I always do what is righteous and just/fair.

I give wealth to those who love me;

I fill their houses with valuable things.

Yahweh created me, wisdom, when he began to create the world;

he created me to do my work before he created anything else.Jhn 1:1

He appointed me long ago, before he created the earth.

I was born before the oceans were created,

when there were no springs from which water flowed.

I was born before the hills and mountains were formed;Psa 90:2; Psa 110:3

I, wisdom, was born before Yahweh made the earth,

before he made the fields and the soil on the earth.

I was there when Yahweh put the sky in place,

when he marked the place in the distance where the sky and the oceans seem to come together.

I was there when Yahweh put the clouds above the earth

and when he caused the water that is inside the earth to be secure.Job 26:8; Job 36:29

I was there when he fixed a boundary for the seas,

so that the water in the seas would not go past those boundaries,

and when he put down the foundations which support the earth.Job 38:10

I was at the side of Yahweh, the master worker (OR, as though I was his child).

I caused him to be happy every day, and I was always rejoicing when I was with him.Jhn 5:20

I was delighted with the world that he created;

I was happy with the people whom he created, too.Jhn 1:10

So, you people who are like my sons, listen to me.

I am pleased with all those who obey my teachings.Psa 119:1; Luk 11:28

Listen carefully to what I teach you and become wise.

Do not reject my teaching!

I am pleased with those who listen to me,

those who are outside my house every day, waiting for me to come out.Mrk 3:20

Those who find me will have a long life,

and Yahweh will be pleased with them.

But those who stray away from me just harm themselves.

All those who hate me, it is as though [IRO] they are loving death.”