PR-8:1  Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her

voice?

PR-8:2  She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in

the places of

the paths.

PR-8:3  She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at

the coming in at

the doors.

PR-8:4  Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice [is] to the sons

of man.

PR-8:5  O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of

an

understanding heart.

PR-8:6  Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the

opening of my lips

[shall be] right things.

PR-8:7  For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness [is] an

abomination to

my lips.

PR-8:8  All the words of my mouth [are] in righteousness; [there

is] nothing

froward or perverse in them.

PR-8:9  They [are] all plain to him that understandeth, and

right to them that

find knowledge.

PR-8:10  Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge

rather than

choice gold.

PR-8:11  For wisdom [is] better than rubies; and all the things

that may be

desired are not to be compared to it.

PR-8:12  I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of

witty

inventions.

PR-8:13  The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and

arrogancy, and the

evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

PR-8:14  Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am]

understanding; I have

strength.

PR-8:15  By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

PR-8:16  By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges

of the earth.

PR-8:17  I love them that love me; and those that seek me early

shall find me.

PR-8:18  Riches and honour [are] with me; [yea], durable riches

and

righteousness.

PR-8:19  My fruit [is] better than gold, yea, than fine gold;

and my revenue

than choice silver.

PR-8:20  I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the

paths of

judgment:

PR-8:21  That I may cause those that love me to inherit

substance; and I will

fill their treasures.

PR-8:22  The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way,

before his works

of old.

PR-8:23  I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or

ever the earth

was.

PR-8:24  When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth; when

[there were]

no fountains abounding with water.

PR-8:25  Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was

I brought

forth:

PR-8:26  While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,

nor the

highest part of the dust of the world.

PR-8:27  When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he

set a compass

upon the face of the depth:

PR-8:28  When he established the clouds above: when he

strengthened the

fountains of the deep:

PR-8:29  When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters

should not pass

his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

PR-8:30  Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and

I was daily

[his] delight, rejoicing always before him;

PR-8:31  Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my

delights [were]

with the sons of men.

PR-8:32  Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for

blessed [are they

that] keep my ways.

PR-8:33  Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

PR-8:34  Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily at

my gates,

waiting at the posts of my doors.

PR-8:35  For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain

favour of the

LORD.

PR-8:36  But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul:

all they that

hate me love death.

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