Proverbs 8:22-36
Read Proverbs 8 in full →22“Yahweh possessed me aat the beginning of His way,Before His deeds 1of old.23“From everlasting I was 1,ainstalled,From the beginning, bfrom the earliest times of the earth.24“When there were no adepths I was 1brought forth,When there were no springs heavy with water.25“aBefore the mountains were settled,Before the hills I was 1brought forth;26While He had not yet made the earth and the fields outside,Nor the first dust of the world.27“When He aestablished the heavens, I was there,When bHe marked out a circle on the face of the deep,28When He made firm the skies above,When the springs of the deep became strong,29When aHe set for the sea its boundarySo that the water would not pass over His 1command,When He marked out bthe foundations of the earth;30Then aI was beside Him, as a master workman;And I was a daily delight,1Rejoicing always before Him,311Rejoicing in the world, His earth,aMy delight is in the sons of men.32“So now, O sons, alisten to me,For bblessed are they who keep my ways.33“aHear discipline and be wise,And do not neglect it.34“aHow blessed is the man who hears me,To watch daily at my doors,To keep watch at my doorposts.35“For ahe who finds me finds lifeAnd bobtains favor from Yahweh.36“But he who 1sins against me adoes violence to his own soul;All those who bhate me clove death.”