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Proverbs 8
Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her
voice ?
Standing in the top of the highest places by the way,
in the midst of the paths.
Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she
speaketh, saying:
O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons
of men.
O little ones, understand subtilty, and ye unwise, take
notice.
Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips
shall be opened to preach right things.
My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate
wickedness.
All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse
in them.
They are right to them that understand, and just to
them that find knowledge.
Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge
rather than gold.
11For wisdom is better than all the most precious things:
and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to
I wisdom dwell in counsel, and am present in learned
thoughts.
The fear of the Lord hateth evil: I hate arrogance,
and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a
double tongue.
Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength
is mine.
By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things,
By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.
I love them that love me: and they that in the morning
early watch for me, shall find me.
With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.
For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone,
and my blossoms than choice silver.
I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths
of judgment,
That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their
treasures.
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways,
before he made any thing from the beginning.
I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth
was made.
The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived.
neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out:
The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been
established: before the hills I was brought forth:
He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the
poles of the world.
When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with
a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths:
When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains
of waters:
When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a
law to the waters that they should not pass their limits:
when be balanced the foundations of the earth;
I was with him forming all things: and was delighted
every day, playing before him at all times;
Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with
the children of men.
Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they
that keep my ways.
Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth
daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.
He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have
salvation from the Lord:
But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own
soul. All that hate me love death.
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