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