Proverbs 8:13-30
English Standard Version
13 (A)The fear of the Lord is (B)hatred of evil.
(C)Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and (D)perverted speech I hate.
14 I have (E)counsel and (F)sound wisdom;
I have insight; (G)I have strength.
15 By me (H)kings reign,
and rulers decree what is just;
16 by me princes rule,
and nobles, all who govern justly.[a]
17 (I)I love those who love me,
and (J)those who seek me diligently find me.
18 (K)Riches and honor are with me,
(L)enduring wealth and (M)righteousness.
19 My fruit is (N)better than (O)gold, even fine gold,
and my yield than (P)choice silver.
20 I walk in the way of righteousness,
in the paths of justice,
21 granting an inheritance to those who love me,
and filling their treasuries.
22 (Q)“The Lord (R)possessed[b] me at the beginning of his work,[c]
the first of his acts (S)of old.
23 Ages ago I was (T)set up,
at the first, (U)before the beginning of the earth.
24 When there were no (V)depths I was (W)brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains (X)had been shaped,
(Y)before the hills, I was brought forth,
26 before he had made the earth with its fields,
or the first of the dust of the world.
27 When he (Z)established the heavens, I was there;
when he drew (AA)a circle on the face of the deep,
28 when he (AB)made firm the skies above,
when he established[d] the fountains of the deep,
29 when he (AC)assigned to the sea its (AD)limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out (AE)the foundations of the earth,
30 then (AF)I was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his[e] (AG)delight,
rejoicing before him always,
Footnotes
- Proverbs 8:16 Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint govern the earth
- Proverbs 8:22 Or fathered; Septuagint created
- Proverbs 8:22 Hebrew way
- Proverbs 8:28 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
- Proverbs 8:30 Or daily filled with
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