Proverbs Chapter 8 Further Zooms In to The Law/Commandments

Proverbs’ More Emphasis On The Torah (Laws)

Some link this chapter to Jesus as usual. What a pity.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Hosea 4:6

“The Torah (Instructions, Teachings, Ordinances, Statutes, Decrees, Precepts, Commandments and Laws)”

Surely wisdom will call out, and understanding will raise her voice.
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For my palate will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
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All the words of my mouth are with righteousness; they contain no twisting or perversion.
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They are all correct to one who understands, and upright to those who find knowledge.
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Accept my discipline and not silver, [for] knowledge is choicer than fine gold,
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for wisdom is better than pearls, and all desires cannot compare to it.”
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I am wisdom; I dwell in cleverness; I provide knowledge of designs.
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Fear of Hashem is hatred of evil. I hate pride and haughtiness, the way of evil, and a duplicitous mouth.
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Hashem made me as the beginning of His way, before His deeds of yore.
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when He had not yet made the earth and its environs or the first dust of the inhabited world.
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When He prepared the heavens, I was there; when He etched out the globe upon the face of the depths;
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When He set for the sea its limit and the waters would not transgress His word; when He forged the foundations of the earth;
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And now, children, listen to me, praiseworthy are those who heed my ways.
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Harken unto discipline and grow wise and you will not reject [wisdom].
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For one who finds me finds life and elicits favor from Hashem.
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But one who sins against me despoils his soul; all who hate me love death.
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1 Will not wisdom call out, and understanding give forth its voice?
2 At the top of the heights upon the road; at the crossroads she stands.
3 Beside the gates, at the entrance of the roof, at the entrance of the portals she cries,
4 “To you, O men, I call, and my voice [is] to the children of man.
5 O simpletons, understand cunning, and you fools, give understanding to your heart.
6 Hearken for I will speak noble things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
7 For my palate shall utter truth, and wickedness is an abomination of my lips.
8 All the sayings of my lips are with righteousness; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
9 They are all true to the understanding one, and straight to those who find knowledge.
10 Take my discipline and not silver; knowledge is chosen above gold.
11 For wisdom is better than pearls; all desirable things cannot be compared to it.
12 I am wisdom; I dwelt [beside] cunning, and the knowledge of devices I will find.
13 Fear of the Lord is to hate evil, haughtiness, pride, the way of evil, and a perverse mouth; [these] I hate.
14 I have counsel and sound wisdom; I am understanding; I have might.
15 Kings reign with me, and rulers legislate righteousness.
16 Through me princes govern, and nobles, yea, all judges of righteousness.
17 I will love those who love me, and those who seek me eagerly will find me.
18 Riches and honor are with me, powerful wealth and charity.
19 My fruit is better than gold-yea than fine gold- and my produce [is better] than choice silver.
20 In the way of righteousness I will go, in the midst of the paths of justice.
21 There is substance to give inheritance to those who love me, and I will fill their treasuries.
22 The Lord acquired me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old.
23 From the distant past I was enthroned, from the beginning, of those that preceded the earth.
24 I was created when there were yet no deeps, when there were no fountains replete with water.
25 I was created before the mountains were sunk, before the hills;
26 when He had not yet made the land and the outsides and the beginning of the dust of the earth.
27 When He established the heavens, there I was, when He drew a circle over the face of the deep;
28 when He made the skies above firm, when He strengthened the fountains of the deep;
29 when He gave the sea its boundary, and the water shall not transgress His command, when He established the foundations of the earth
30 I was a nursling beside Him, and I was [His] delight every day, playing before Him at all times;
31 playing in the habitable world of His earth, and [having] my delights with the children of man.
32 And now, my children, hearken to me, and fortunate are those who observe my ways.
33 Hearken to discipline and become wise, and do not put it to naught.
34 Fortunate is the man who listens to me to watch by my doors day by day, to watch the doorposts of my entrances.
35 For he who has found me has found life, and he has obtained favor from the Lord.
36 But he who sins against me robs his soul; all who hate me, love death.”