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href="/proverbs/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Beside the gates, at the entry of the city,</div><div class="po2">At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>‘Unto you, O men, I call,</div><div class="po2">And my voice is to the sons of men.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>O ye thoughtless, understand prudence,</div><div class="po2">And, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Hear, for I will speak excellent things,</div><div class="po2">And the opening of my lips shall be right things.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For my mouth shall utter truth,</div><div class="po2">And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>All the words of my mouth are in righteousness,</div><div class="po2">There is nothing perverse or crooked in them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They are all plain to him that understandeth,</div><div class="po2">And right to them that find knowledge.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Receive my instruction, and not silver,</div><div class="po2">And knowledge rather than choice gold.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For wisdom is better than rubies,</div><div class="po2">And all things desirable are not to be compared unto her.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I wisdom dwell with prudence,</div><div class="po2">And find out knowledge of devices.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The fear of the LORD is to hate evil;</div><div class="po2">Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way,</div><div class="po2">And the froward mouth, do I hate.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom;</div><div class="po2">I am understanding, power is mine.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>By me kings reign,</div><div class="po2">And princes decree justice.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>By me princes rule, And nobles, even all the judges of the earth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I love them that love me,</div><div class="po2">And those that seek me earnestly shall find me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Riches and honour are with me;</div><div class="po2">Yea, enduring riches and righteousness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold;</div><div class="po2">And my produce than choice silver.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I walk in the way of righteousness,</div><div class="po2">In the midst of the paths of justice;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance,</div><div class="po2">And that I may fill their treasuries.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The LORD made me as the beginning of His way,</div><div class="po2">The first of His works of old.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,</div><div class="po2">Or ever the earth was.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When there were no depths, I was brought forth;</div><div class="po2">When there were no fountains abounding with water.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Before the mountains were settled,</div><div class="po2">Before the hills was I brought forth;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields,</div><div class="po2">Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>When He established the heavens, I was there;</div><div class="po2">When He set a circle upon the face of the deep,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>When He made firm the skies above,</div><div class="po2">When the fountains of the deep showed their might,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>When He gave to the sea His decree,</div><div class="po2">That the waters should not transgress His commandment,</div><div class="po2">When He appointed the foundations of the earth;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Then I was by Him, as a nursling;</div><div class="po2">And I was daily all delight,</div><div class="po2">Playing always before Him,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Playing in His habitable earth,</div><div class="po2">And my delights are with the sons of men.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Now therefore, ye children, hearken unto me;</div><div class="po2">For happy are they that keep my ways.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Hear instruction, and be wise,</div><div class="po2">And refuse it not.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me,</div><div class="po2">Watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>For whoso findeth me findeth life,</div><div class="po2">And obtaineth favour of the LORD.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>But he that misseth me wrongeth his own soul;</div><div class="po2">All they that hate me love death.’</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY 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