Provérbios 8

1 Doth not wisdom cry,

2 On the top of high places by the way,

3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city,

4 Unto you, O men, I call;

5 O ye simple, understand prudence;

6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things;

7 For my mouth shall utter truth;

8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness;

9 They are all plain to him that understandeth,

10 Receive my instruction, and not silver;

11 For wisdom is better than rubies;

12 I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling,

13 The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil:

14 Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge:

15 By me kings reign,

16 By me princes rule,

17 I love them that love me;

18 Riches and honor are with me;

19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold;

20 I walk in the way of righteousness,

21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance,

22 Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way,

23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,

24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth,

25 Before the mountains were settled,

26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,

27 When he established the heavens, I was there:

28 When he made firm the skies above,

29 When he gave to the sea its bound,

30 Then I was by him,

31 Rejoicing in his habitable earth;

32 Now therefore,

33 Hear instruction, and be wise,

34 Blessed is the man that heareth me,

35 For whoso findeth me findeth life,

36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: