chapter_Proverbs_8
Proverbs 8:1: Doth not wisdom call? And understanding give forth her voice? Proverbs 8:2: At the head of high places by the way, Between the paths she hath stood, Proverbs 8:3: At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she crieth aloud, Proverbs 8:4: Unto you, O men, I call, And my voice is unto the sons of men. Proverbs 8:5: Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart, Proverbs 8:6: Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips is uprightness. Proverbs 8:7: For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness. Proverbs 8:8: In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse. Proverbs 8:9: All of them are plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge. Proverbs 8:10: Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold. Proverbs 8:11: For better is wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it. Proverbs 8:12: I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out. Proverbs 8:13: The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated. Proverbs 8:14: Mine is counsel and substance, I am understanding, I have might. Proverbs 8:15: By me kings reign, and princes decree righteousness, Proverbs 8:16: By me do chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of the earth. Proverbs 8:17: I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me. Proverbs 8:18: Wealth and honour are with me, Lasting substance and righteousness. Proverbs 8:19: Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver. Proverbs 8:20: In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment, Proverbs 8:21: To cause my lovers to inherit substance, Yea, their treasures I fill. Proverbs 8:22: Jehovah possessed me &#8212; the beginning of His way, Before His works since then. Proverbs 8:23: From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth. Proverbs 8:24: In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy with waters, Proverbs 8:25: Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth. Proverbs 8:26: While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world. Proverbs 8:27: In His preparing the heavens I am there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep, Proverbs 8:28: In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep, Proverbs 8:29: In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth, Proverbs 8:30: Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight &#8212; day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times, Proverbs 8:31: Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights are with the sons of men. Proverbs 8:32: And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways. Proverbs 8:33: Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not. Proverbs 8:34: O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance. Proverbs 8:35: For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah. Proverbs 8:36: And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!
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