Verse 1
Proverbs 8:1
Darby Translation
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Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding give forth her voice?
Original Language Text
hebrew
הֲ/לֹֽא חָכְמָ֥ה תִקְרָ֑א וּ֝/תְבוּנָ֗ה תִּתֵּ֥ן קוֹלָֽ/הּ
English Translation
Does not wisdom call, and understanding give her voice?
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 8 Context
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Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding give forth her voice?
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On the top of high places by the way, at the cross-paths she taketh her stand.
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Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud.
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Unto you, men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man:
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O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense.
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Hear, for I will speak excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
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For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
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All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing tortuous or perverse in them.
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They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
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Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold:
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for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not equal to it.
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I wisdom dwell [with] prudence, and find the knowledge [which cometh] of reflection.
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The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth d...
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Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength.
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By me kings reign, and rulers make just decrees;
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by me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth.
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I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.
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Riches and honour are with me; durable wealth and righteousness.
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My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
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I walk in the path of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
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that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasuries.
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Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
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I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.
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When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
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Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;
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while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
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When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he ordained the circle upon the face of the deep;
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when he established the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong;
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when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appoi...
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then I was by him [his] nursling, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
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rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights [were] with the sons of men.
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And now, sons, hearken unto me, and blessed are they that keep my ways:
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hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
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Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
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For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of Jehovah;
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but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
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