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Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Excellence of Wisdom</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice ? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>O little ones, understand subtilty, and ye unwise, take notice. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse in them. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>11For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I wisdom dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The fear of the Lord hateth evil: I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before the hills I was brought forth: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>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; </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times; </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. 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