Proverbs 8:1
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding give forth her voice?
Proverbs 8:2
On the top of high places by the way, at the cross-paths she taketh her stand.
Proverbs 8:3
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud.
Proverbs 8:4
Unto you, men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man:
Proverbs 8:5
O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense.
Proverbs 8:6
Hear, for I will speak excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Proverbs 8:7
For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Proverbs 8:8
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing tortuous or perverse in them.
Proverbs 8:9
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
Proverbs 8:10
Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold:
Proverbs 8:11
for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not equal to it.
Proverbs 8:12
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find the knowledge which cometh of reflection.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.
Proverbs 8:14
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength.
Proverbs 8:15
By me kings reign, and rulers make just decrees;
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by me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.
Proverbs 8:18
Riches and honour are with me; durable wealth and righteousness.
Proverbs 8:19
My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
Proverbs 8:20
I walk in the path of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
Proverbs 8:21
that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasuries.
Proverbs 8:22
Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Proverbs 8:23
I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.
Proverbs 8:24
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
Proverbs 8:25
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;
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while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
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When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he ordained the circle upon the face of the deep;
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when he established the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong;
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when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
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then I was by him his nursling, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
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rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Proverbs 8:32
And now, sons, hearken unto me, and blessed are they that keep my ways:
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hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Proverbs 8:35
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of Jehovah;
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but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.