Sprüche 8

1. ¹Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding give forth her voice?
2. ²On the top of high places by the way, at the cross-paths she taketh her stand.
3. ³Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud.
4. ⁴Unto you, men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man:
5. ⁵O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense.
6. ⁶Hear, for I will speak excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
7. ⁷For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8. ⁸All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing tortuous or perverse in them.
9. ⁹They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
10. ¹⁰Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold:
11. ¹¹for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not equal to it.
12. ¹²I wisdom dwell [ergänzt: with] prudence, and find the knowledge [ergänzt: which cometh] of reflection.
13. ¹³The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.
14. ¹⁴Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength.
15. ¹⁵By me kings reign, and rulers make just decrees;
16. ¹⁶by me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth.
17. ¹⁷I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.
18. ¹⁸Riches and honour are with me; durable wealth and righteousness.
19. ¹⁹My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
20. ²⁰I walk in the path of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
21. ²¹that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasuries.
22. ²²Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23. ²³I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.
24. ²⁴When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25. ²⁵Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;
26. ²⁶while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
27. ²⁷When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he ordained the circle upon the face of the deep;
28. ²⁸when he established the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong;
29. ²⁹when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30. ³⁰then I was by him [ergänzt: his] nursling, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31. ³¹rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights [ergänzt: were] with the sons of men.
32. ³²And now, sons, hearken unto me, and blessed are they that keep my ways:
33. ³³hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
34. ³⁴Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
35. ³⁵For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of Jehovah;
36. ³⁶but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

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