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Book of Proverbs, Chapter 8

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Chapter 8 of Proverbs—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Does not wisdom keep calling out,1 and discernment keep giving forth its voice?2
  2. On top of the heights,3 by the way, at the crossing of the roadways it has stationed itself.
  3. At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the town,4 at the going in of the entrances it keeps crying loudly:5
  4. ¶ “To YOU, O men,[a] I am calling, and my voice is to the sons of men.[b]6
  5. O inexperienced ones, understand shrewdness;7 and YOU stupid ones, understand heart.[c]8
  6. Listen, for it is about the foremost things that I speak,9 and the opening of my lips is about uprightness.10
  7. For my palate in low tones utters truth itself;11 and wickedness is something detestable to my lips.12
  8. All the sayings of my mouth are in righteousness.13 Among them there is nothing twisted or crooked.14
  9. All of them are straight to the discerning one, and upright to the ones finding knowledge.15
  10. TAKE my discipline and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.16
  11. For wisdom is better than corals,17 and all other delights themselves cannot be made equal to it.18
  12. ¶ “I, wisdom, I have resided with shrewdness19 and I find even the knowledge of thinking abilities.20
  13. The fear of Jehovah means the hating of bad.21 Self-exaltation and pride22 and the bad way and the perverse mouth23 I have hated.
  14. I have counsel24 and practical wisdom.25 I—understanding;26 I have mightiness.27
  15. By me kings themselves keep reigning, and high officials themselves keep decreeing righteousness.28
  16. By me princes themselves keep ruling as princes,29 and nobles are all judging in righteousness.30
  17. Those loving me[d] I myself love,31 and those looking for me are the ones that find me.32
  18. Riches and glory[e] are with me,33 hereditary values and righteousness.34
  19. My fruitage is better than gold,[f] even than refined gold, and my produce than choice silver.35
  20. In the path of righteousness I walk,36 in the middle of the roadways of judgment,37
  21. to cause those loving me to take possession of substance;38 and their storehouses I keep filled.39
  22. ¶ “Jehovah himself produced me[g] as the beginning[h] of his way,40 the earliest of his achievements of long ago.41
  23. From time indefinite I was installed,42 from the start,[i] from times earlier than the earth.43
  24. When there were no watery deeps[j] I was brought forth as with labor pains,44 when there were no springs heavily charged with water.
  25. Before the mountains themselves had been settled down,45 ahead of the hills, I was brought forth as with labor pains,
  26. when as yet he had not made the earth46 and the open spaces and the first part of the dust masses of the productive land.[k]47
  27. When he prepared the heavens I was there;48 when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep,49
  28. when he made firm the cloud masses above,50 when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong,51
  29. when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order,[l]52 when he decreed the foundations of the earth,53
  30. then I came to be beside him as a master worker,[m]54 and I came to be the one he[n] was specially fond55 of day by day, I being glad before him all the time,56
  31. being glad at the productive land[o] of his earth,57 and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men.[p]58
  32. ¶ “And now, O sons, listen to me; yes, happy are the ones that keep my very ways.59
  33. Listen to discipline and become wise,60 and do not show any neglect.61
  34. Happy is the man that is listening to me by keeping awake at my doors day by day, by watching at the posts of my entrances.62
  35. For the one finding me will certainly find life,63 and gets goodwill from Jehovah.64
  36. But the one missing me is doing violence to his soul;65 all those intensely hating me are the ones that do love death.”66

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “Men.” Heb., ʼi·shimʹ, pl. of ʼish. See Isa 53:3 ftn, “Men.”
  2. ^ Lit., “earthling man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
  3. ^ Or, “have good motive.” Heb., ha·viʹnu lev.
  4. ^ “Me,” MmarginTLXXSyVg; M, “it (her).”
  5. ^ Or, “honor.”
  6. ^ “Than gold.” Heb., me·cha·rutsʹ.
  7. ^ “Produced me.” Heb., qa·naʹni; TLXX(Gr., eʹkti·senʹ me)Sy, “created me”; Lat., pos·seʹdit me, “possessed me.” See Ge 14:19 ftn.
  8. ^ “As the beginning of.” Heb., reʼ·shithʹ; Gr., ar·khenʹ; not bereʼ·shithʹ (Heb.) or en ar·kheiʹ (Gr.) as in Ge 1:1; Sy, “as the first”; TVgc(Lat., in i·niʹti·o), “in the beginning.”
  9. ^ Lit., “from the head.” Heb., me·roʼshʹ.
  10. ^ Or, “surging waters.” Heb., teho·mohthʹ. See Ge 1:2 ftn, “Deep.”
  11. ^ “Productive land.” Heb., te·velʹ; Lat., orʹbis terʹrae, “circle of the earth.”
  12. ^ Lit., “mouth.”
  13. ^ Or, “a fosterling.” Heb., ʼa·mohnʹ; T, “proving faithful”; LXX, “acting suitably”; Vg, “composing all things.”
  14. ^ “He,” LXXSy.
  15. ^ “At the productive land of.” Heb., bethe·velʹ; LXX, “the inhabited earth.”
  16. ^ Lit., “earthling man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Pr 1:20
  2. ^ Pr 2:3, 11
  3. ^ Mt 10:27
  4. ^ Pr 1:21
  5. ^ Ac 20:20
  6. ^ Mt 11:15
  7. ^ Ps 19:7; Pr 1:4
  8. ^ Je 17:9
  9. ^ 1Co 2:6
  10. ^ Pr 2:9
  11. ^ Jn 4:24; 17:17
  12. ^ Pr 12:22; 29:27
  13. ^ Ps 12:6; Is 45:23
  14. ^ 2Ti 3:16
  15. ^ Ps 25:12; Pr 21:11
  16. ^ Ps 19:10; 119:72, 127; Pr 3:14; 16:16; 20:15
  17. ^ Pr 3:15
  18. ^ Ps 19:10; 119:127
  19. ^ Pr 1:4
  20. ^ Pr 2:11; 5:2
  21. ^ Ps 97:10; 101:3; Pr 13:5; 16:6; Ro 12:9
  22. ^ 1Sa 2:3; Ps 101:5; Pr 11:2; 1Pe 5:5
  23. ^ Pr 4:24
  24. ^ Is 9:6; Jn 7:16
  25. ^ Pr 2:7; Lu 1:17
  26. ^ Pr 4:7
  27. ^ Pr 24:5
  28. ^ Ps 72:1
  29. ^ Is 32:1
  30. ^ Pr 29:2
  31. ^ Ps 91:14; Jn 14:21
  32. ^ Pr 2:5
  33. ^ Mr 10:30
  34. ^ 1Ki 3:6
  35. ^ Pr 3:14
  36. ^ Ps 85:13; Pr 11:5
  37. ^ Ps 72:2; Is 11:4; 42:1
  38. ^ Ps 37:11; Mt 25:34
  39. ^ Ml 3:10
  40. ^ Jn 1:1, 14
  41. ^ Col 1:15
  42. ^ Mc 5:2
  43. ^ Jn 1:3; 8:58; 17:5; Col 1:16
  44. ^ Ge 1:2
  45. ^ Ge 1:10; Ps 90:2
  46. ^ Ge 1:1
  47. ^ Ps 89:11; 90:2
  48. ^ Ps 33:6; Je 10:12; Col 1:17
  49. ^ Ge 1:6; Jb 26:10
  50. ^ Ge 1:7; Jb 38:9
  51. ^ Ge 2:6; 7:11; 8:2; Ps 104:6
  52. ^ Ge 1:9; Jb 38:11; Ps 33:7; 104:9; Je 5:22
  53. ^ Ge 1:9
  54. ^ Ge 1:26; Jn 1:3; 17:5; Col 1:16
  55. ^ Is 42:1; Mt 3:17
  56. ^ Jb 38:7
  57. ^ Ps 9:8; 98:7
  58. ^ Jn 3:16; 13:1
  59. ^ 1Jo 2:17
  60. ^ Pr 3:11; 4:13; Heb 12:7
  61. ^ Pr 28:14; Heb 12:25
  62. ^ Mt 5:3; 1Th 5:6
  63. ^ Pr 13:14; Jn 3:36; 14:6; 17:3
  64. ^ Pr 12:2; Eph 1:6
  65. ^ Jn 3:19; Ac 13:46
  66. ^ Pr 5:23; Mt 25:46

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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