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| 8:1 |
Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?
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| 8:2 |
On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;
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| 8:3 |
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
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| 8:4 |
Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.
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| 8:5 |
O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.
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| 8:6 |
Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.
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| 8:7 |
For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
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| 8:8 |
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
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| 8:9 |
They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.
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| 8:10 |
Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.
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| 8:11 |
For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.
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| 8:12 |
I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge [and] discretion.
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| 8:13 |
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.
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| 8:14 |
Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.
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| 8:15 |
By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.
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| 8:16 |
By me princes rule, And nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.
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| 8:17 |
I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.
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| 8:18 |
Riches and honor are with me; [Yea], durable wealth and righteousness.
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| 8:19 |
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.
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| 8:20 |
I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;
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| 8:21 |
That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their treasuries.
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| 8:22 |
Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.
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| 8:23 |
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.
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| 8:24 |
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.
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| 8:25 |
Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;
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| 8:26 |
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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| 8:27 |
When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
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| 8:28 |
When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,
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| 8:29 |
When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
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| 8:30 |
Then I was by him, [as] a master workman; And I was daily [his] delight, Rejoicing always before him,
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| 8:31 |
Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.
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| 8:32 |
Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways.
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| 8:33 |
Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not.
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| 8:34 |
Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.
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| 8:35 |
For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.
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| 8:36 |
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.
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