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Proverbs 8

The Message Bible MSG

1 Do you hear Lady Wisdom calling? Can you hear Madame Insight raising her voice?

2 She's taken her stand at First and Main, at the busiest intersection.

3 Right in the city square where the traffic is thickest, she shouts,

4 "You - I'm talking to all of you, everyone out here on the streets!

5 Listen, you idiots - learn good sense! You blockheads - shape up!

6 Don't miss a word of this - I'm telling you how to live well, I'm telling you how to live at your best.

7 My mouth chews and savors and relishes truth - I can't stand the taste of evil!

8 You'll only hear true and right words from my mouth; not one syllable will be twisted or skewed.

9 You'll recognize this as true - you with open minds; truth-ready minds will see it at once.

10 Prefer my life-disciplines over chasing after money, and God-knowledge over a lucrative career.

11 For Wisdom is better than all the trappings of wealth; nothing you could wish for holds a candle to her.

12 "I am Lady Wisdom, and I live next to Sanity; Knowledge and Discretion live just down the street.

13 The Fear-of-God means hating Evil, whose ways I hate with a passion - pride and arrogance and crooked talk.

14 Good counsel and common sense are my characteristics; I am both Insight and the Virtue to live it out.

15 With my help, leaders rule, and lawmakers legislate fairly;

16 With my help, governors govern, along with all in legitimate authority.

17 I love those who love me; those who look for me find me.

18 Wealth and Glory accompany me - also substantial Honor and a Good Name.

19 My benefits are worth more than a big salary, even a very big salary; the returns on me exceed any imaginable bonus.

20 You can find me on Righteous Road - that's where I walk - at the intersection of Justice Avenue,

21 Handing out life to those who love me, filling their arms with life - armloads of life!

22 "God sovereignly made me - the first, the basic - before he did anything else.

23 I was brought into being a long time ago, well before Earth got its start.

24 I arrived on the scene before Ocean, yes, even before Springs and Rivers and Lakes.

25 Before Mountains were sculpted and Hills took shape, I was already there, newborn;

26 Long before God stretched out Earth's Horizons, and tended to the minute details of Soil and Weather,

27 And set Sky firmly in place, I was there. When he mapped and gave borders to wild Ocean,

28 built the vast vault of Heaven, and installed the fountains that fed Ocean,

29 When he drew a boundary for Sea, posted a sign that said, no trespassing, And then staked out Earth's foundations,

30 I was right there with him, making sure everything fit. Day after day I was there, with my joyful applause, always enjoying his company,

31 Delighted with the world of things and creatures, happily celebrating the human family.

32 "So, my dear friends, listen carefully; those who embrace these my ways are most blessed.

33 Mark a life of discipline and live wisely; don't squander your precious life.

34 Blessed the man, blessed the woman, who listens to me, awake and ready for me each morning, alert and responsive as I start my day's work.

35 When you find me, you find life, real life, to say nothing of God's good pleasure.

36 But if you wrong me, you damage your very soul; when you reject me, you're flirting with death."

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 numquid non sapientia clamitat et prudentia dat vocem suam

2 in summis excelsisque verticibus super viam in mediis semitis stans

3 iuxta portas civitatis in ipsis foribus loquitur dicens

4 o viri ad vos clamito et vox mea ad filios hominum

5 intellegite parvuli astutiam et insipientes animadvertite

6 audite quoniam de rebus magnis locutura sum et aperientur labia mea ut recta praedicent

7 veritatem meditabitur guttur meum et labia mea detestabuntur impium

8 iusti sunt omnes sermones mei non est in eis pravum quid neque perversum

9 recti sunt intellegentibus et aequi invenientibus scientiam

10 accipite disciplinam meam et non pecuniam doctrinam magis quam aurum eligite

11 melior est enim sapientia cunctis pretiosissimis et omne desiderabile ei non potest conparari

12 ego sapientia habito in consilio et eruditis intersum cogitationibus

13 timor Domini odit malum arrogantiam et superbiam et viam pravam et os bilingue detestor

14 meum est consilium et aequitas mea prudentia mea est fortitudo

15 per me reges regnant et legum conditores iusta decernunt

16 per me principes imperant et potentes decernunt iustitiam

17 ego diligentes me diligo et qui mane vigilant ad me invenient me

18 mecum sunt divitiae et gloria opes superbae et iustitia

19 melior est fructus meus auro et pretioso lapide et genimina mea argento electo

20 in viis iustitiae ambulo in medio semitarum iudicii

21 ut ditem diligentes me et thesauros eorum repleam

22 Dominus possedit me initium viarum suarum antequam quicquam faceret a principio

23 ab aeterno ordita sum et ex antiquis antequam terra fieret

24 necdum erant abyssi et ego iam concepta eram necdum fontes aquarum eruperant

25 necdum montes gravi mole constiterant ante colles ego parturiebar

26 adhuc terram non fecerat et flumina et cardines orbis terrae

27 quando praeparabat caelos aderam quando certa lege et gyro vallabat abyssos

28 quando aethera firmabat sursum et librabat fontes aquarum

29 quando circumdabat mari terminum suum et legem ponebat aquis ne transirent fines suos quando adpendebat fundamenta terrae

30 cum eo eram cuncta conponens et delectabar per singulos dies ludens coram eo omni tempore

31 ludens in orbe terrarum et deliciae meae esse cum filiis hominum

32 nunc ergo filii audite me beati qui custodiunt vias meas

33 audite disciplinam et estote sapientes et nolite abicere eam

34 beatus homo qui audit me qui vigilat ad fores meas cotidie et observat ad postes ostii mei

35 qui me invenerit inveniet vitam et hauriet salutem a Domino

36 qui autem in me peccaverit laedet animam suam omnes qui me oderunt diligunt mortem