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and the openings of my lips uprightnesses.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For my palate shall meditate the truth, and evil is the abomination of my lips.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In justice are all the sayings of my mouth; nothing in them crooked and perverse.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>All of them straight to him understanding, and right to those finding knowledge.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Receive my instruction and not silver and knowledge above tried gold.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For wisdom is good above pearls, and all delights shall not be made equal with her.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I wisdom dwelt with prudence, and I shall find the knowledge of machinations.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The fear of Jehovah hates evil: pride and haughtiness, and the evil way, and the mouth of perverseness I hated.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>To me counsel and wisdom: I am understanding; to me is strength.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>By me kings shall reign, and princes shall decree justice.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>By me chiefs shall have dominion, and nobles all judging the earth.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I loved those loving me: and they seeking me shall find me.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Riches and honor are with me; splendid riches and justice.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>My fruit is good above gold, and above pure gold; and my gain above tried silver.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I shall go in the way of justice, in the midst of the beaten paths of judgment:<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>To cause those loving me to inherit existence: and I will fill their treasures.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Jehovah set me up the beginning of his way, before his works from ancient time.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>From forever I was knit together, from the beginning, from the first of the earth.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>In no depths was I begun; in no fountains abundant in waters.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Before the mountains were settled; before the hills I had a beginning:<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Yet he made not the earth and the fields, and the head of the clods of the habitable globe.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>In his preparing the heavens I was there: in his inscribing a circle upon the face of the deep:<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>In his making firm the clouds from above: in his strengthening the fountains of the deep:<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>In his setting his law to the sea, and the waters shall not pass by his mouth; in his making firm the foundations of the earth:<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And I shall be near him the builder, and I shall be a delight of day, day, smiling before him in all time.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Smiling in the habitable globe of his earth; and my delight with the sons of man.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And now ye sons, hear to me: and the happy shall watch my ways.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Hear ye instructions, and be wise, and ye shall not reject it.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Happy the man hearing to me, to watch at my doors day, day; to watch the door posts of my entrances.<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>For he finding me, the finding of life, and he shall bring forth acceptance from Jehovah.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And he sinning against me did violence to his soul: all hating me loved death.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; 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