Proverbs Chapter 8

The voice of Wisdom

8:1 Doesn’t wisdom call out? and understanding will raise her voice?
8:2 She stands on top of the heights, along the way at the place where pathways meet.
8:3 She cries at the entrance to the gates of the city.
8:4 To you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of mankindאָדָם‎
Transliteration: ‘āḏām Pronunciation: aw-dam’ man, human being
man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here.
8:5 Simple ones, understand cleverness: and, fools,  understand [in your] heart.
8:6 Listen; because I will speak noble things; and the opening of my lips [will be] right things.
8:7 Because my mouth will speak truthאֱמֶת‎
Transliteration: ‘ĕmeṯ – stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness:—assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, faithfulness, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity, reliability. For more info click here; and wickednessרֶשַׁע‎
Transliteration: rešaʿ – morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person:— condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong – For more info click here is an abomination to my lips.
8:8 All the words of my mouth are with righteousבְּצֶדֶק‎
Transliteration: bᵊṣeḏeq the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity:—× even, (× that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness). For more info click here; they contain no twisting or perversion.
8:9 They [are] all straightforward to him that understands, and upright to those who find knowledge.
8:10 Accept my instruction, and not silver; [because] knowledge is better than fine gold.
8:11 Because wisdom is better than jewels; and all desires can’t be compared to it.

The nature of wisdom

8:12 I, wisdom live in cleverness, I provide knowledge and discretion.
8:13 The fear of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here [is] hatred of evilרָע‎
Transliteration: rāʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here: I hate pride, and arrogance, the wayוְדֶרֶךְ
Transliteration: vᵊḏereḵ – and | the way -, and the road, and the distance, and the journey, and the manner, and the path, and the direction, and toward – For more info click here of evilרָע‎
Transliteration: rāʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here , and a deceptive mouth.
8:14 Good advise and wisdom are mine: I [am] understanding; strength is with me.
8:15 By me kings reign, and nobles decree. righteousnessצֶדֶק‎
Transliteration:ṣeḏeq Pronunciation:tseh’-dek the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity:—× even, (× that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness). For more info click here.
8:16 By me officials rule, and nobles, all who judgeשֹׁפְטֵי‎
Transliteration: šōp̄ṭê; Hebrew Verb: Qal Participle Active Masculine Plural Construct – judges, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extension, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively):— avenge, × that condemn, contend, defend, execute (judgment), (be a) judge(-ment), × needs, plead, reason, rule. For more info click here righteouslyצֶדֶק‎
Transliteration:ṣeḏeq Pronunciation:tseh’-dek the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity:—× even, (× that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness). For more info click here.
8:17 I love those that love me; and those that search for me will find me.
8:18 Wealth and honor are with me;  enduring wealth and righteousnessוּצְדָקָה‎
Transliteration: ûṣḏāqâ To do what is right the fulfillment of all legal and moral obligations. Righteousness is not an abstract notion but rather consists in doing what is just and right in all relationships rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity):—justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness) – For more info click here.
8:19 My fruit [is] betterטוֹב
Transliteration: ṭôḇ Pronunciation: tobe – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair, (be in) favor, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -lie, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, like (best), loving, merry, × most, pleasant, please, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favored). For more info click here than gold, even than pure gold; and my produce choicer than silver.
8:20 I lead on the path of righteousnessצְדָקָה‎
Transliteration: ṣᵊḏāqâ Pronunciation: tsed-aw-kaw’ To do what is right the fulfillment of all legal and moral obligations. Righteousness is not an abstract notion but rather consists in doing what is just and right in all relationships rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity):—justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness) – For more info click here, in the middle of the pathways of judgmentמִשְׁפָּט‎
Transliteration: mišpāṭ – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here:
8:21 to give wealth as an inheritance to those who love me; and I will fill their storehouses.

Wisdom’s beginning

8:22 YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here made me as the beginning of His wayדַּרְכּוֹ
Transliteration: darkô – from his way, from his road, from his distance, from his journey, from his manner, from his path, from his direction, toward – For more info click here, the first of His acts of long ago.
8:23 I reigned for all time, from the beginning, from before [there was] the earth.
8:24 When there were no depths, I was formed; when there were no springs rich with water.
8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I formed:
8:26 While He hadn’t made the earth yet, or its outskirts, or the first of the dust of the world.
8:27 When He prepared the heavensשָׁמַיִם‎
Pronunciation:shaw-mah’-yim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere Heaven (as the abode of God) – For more info click here, I was there: when He drew the globe on the face of deep:
8:28 when he made firm the clouds above: when he fortified the springs of the deep:
8:29 When He set the limit for sea and the waters wouldn’t transgress His word: when He marked out the foundations of the earth:
8:30 I was then I was near him, like one brought up [by him]: and I was His delight daily, always playing in His presence;
8:31 Playing in the inhabited part of His earth; and my delights are with the children of mankindאָדָם‎
Transliteration: ‘āḏām Pronunciation: aw-dam’ man, human being
man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here.
8:32 So now children listen to me: because happy [are those that] heed my waysדְּרָכַי‎
Transliteration: dᵊrāḵay – my ways, my roads, my paths, my routes, my distances, my journeys, my manners For more info click here.
8:33 Listen to instruction, and grow wise, and don’t reject [wisdom].
8:34 Happy is the man who listens me, hurrying to my doors daily, guarding the doorposts of my entryway.
8:35 Because whoever finds me finds life, and will obtains the favor of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
8:36 But the one who sins against meוְחֹטְאִי
Transliteration: vᵊḥōṭ’î – sin, guilt for sin, punishment for sin, a crime or its penalty, offense, (punishment of) sin – For more info click here does violence to his soulנַפְשׁוֹ
Transliteration: nap̄šô – Meaning: his soul, himself, his life, his creature, his person, his appetite, his mind, his living being, his desire, his emotion, his passion For more info click here: all those who hate me love death.