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the main entrance, she cries out: <A name="5"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-4.htm">4</a>“People, I call out to you;my cry is to the children of Adam. <A name="6"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-5.htm">5</a>Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced;develop common sense, you who are foolish. <A name="7"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-6.htm">6</a>Listen, for I speak of noble things,and what my lips say is right. <A name="8"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-7.htm">7</a>For my mouth tells the truth,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.7.1">a</a>and wickedness is detestable to my lips. <A name="9"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-8.htm">8</a>All the words from my mouth are righteous;none of them are deceptive or perverse.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.8.1">a</a> <A name="10"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-9.htm">9</a>All of them are clear to the perceptive,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.9.1">a</a>and right to those who discover knowledge. <A name="11"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-10.htm">10</a>Accept my instruction instead of silver,and knowledge rather than pure gold.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.10.1">a</a> <A name="12"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-11.htm">11</a>For wisdom is better than jewels,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.11.1">a</a>and nothing desirable can equal it.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.11.2">b</a> <A name="13"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-12.htm">12</a>I, wisdom, share a home with shrewdnessand have knowledge and discretion.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.12.1">a</a> <A name="14"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-13.htm">13</a>To fear the Lord is to hate evil.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.13.1">a</a>I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct,and perverse speech. <A name="15"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-14.htm">14</a>I possess good advice and sound wisdom;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.8.14.1">A</a>I have understanding and strength.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.14.1">a</a> <A name="16"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-15.htm">15</a>It is by me that kings reign<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.15.1">a</a>and rulers enact just law; <A name="17"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-16.htm">16</a>by me, princes lead,as do nobles and all righteous judges.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.8.16.1">A</a> <A name="18"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-17.htm">17</a>I love those who love me,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.17.1">a</a>and those who search for me find me.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.17.2">b</a> <A name="19"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-18.htm">18</a>With me are riches and honor,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.18.1">a</a>lasting wealth and righteousness.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.18.2">b</a> <A name="20"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-19.htm">19</a>My fruit is better than solid gold,and my harvest than pure silver.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.19.1">a</a> <A name="21"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-20.htm">20</a>I walk in the ways of righteousness,along the paths of justice, <A name="22"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-21.htm">21</a>giving wealth as an inheritance to those who love me,and filling their treasuries.</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="23"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-22.htm">22</a>“The Lord acquired<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.8.22.1">A</a> meat the beginning of his creation,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.8.22.2">B</a>before his works of long ago.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.22.1">a</a> <A name="24"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-23.htm">23</a>I was formed<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.8.23.1">A</a> before ancient times,from the beginning, before the earth began.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.23.1">a</a> <A name="25"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-24.htm">24</a>I was bornwhen there were no watery depths<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.24.1">a</a>and no springs filled with water. <A name="26"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-25.htm">25</a>Before the mountains were established,prior to the hills,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.25.1">a</a> I was given birth — <A name="27"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-26.htm">26</a>before he made the land, the fields,or the first soil on earth. <A name="28"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-27.htm">27</a>I was there when he established the heavens,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.27.1">a</a>when he laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.27.2">b</a> <A name="29"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-28.htm">28</a>when he placed the skies above,when the fountains of the ocean gushed out, <A name="30"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-29.htm">29</a>when he set a limit for the seaso that the waters would not violate his command,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.29.1">a</a>when he laid out the foundations of the earth.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.29.2">b</a> <A name="31"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-30.htm">30</a>I was a skilled craftsman<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.8.30.1">A</a> beside him.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.30.1">a</a>I was his<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.8.30.2">B</a> delight every day,always rejoicing before him. <A name="32"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-31.htm">31</a>I was rejoicing in his inhabited world,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.31.1">a</a>delighting in the children of Adam.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.31.2">b</a></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="33"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-32.htm">32</a>“And now, sons, listen to me;those who keep my ways are happy.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.32.1">a</a> <A name="34"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-33.htm">33</a>Listen to instruction and be wise;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.33.1">a</a>don’t ignore it. <A name="35"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-34.htm">34</a>Anyone who listens to me is happy,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.34.1">a</a>watching at my doors every day,waiting by the posts of my doorway. <A name="36"></a><a href="/proverbs/8-35.htm">35</a>For the one who finds me finds life<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.35.1">a</a>and obtains favor from the Lord,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.35.2">b</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-36.htm">36</a>but the one who misses me<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.8.36.1">A</a> harms himself;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.36.1">a</a>all who hate me love death.”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.8.36.2">b</a></blockquote> <section id="footnotes-Proverbs.8" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Proverbs.8.14.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.14">8:14</a> Or resourcefulness</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.8.16.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.16">8:16</a> Some Hb mss, LXX read nobles who judge the earth</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.8.22.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.22">8:22</a> Or possessed, or made</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.8.22.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.22">8:22</a> Lit way</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.8.23.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.23">8:23</a> Or consecrated</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.8.30.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.30">8:30</a> Or a confidant, or a child, or was constantly</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.8.30.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.30">8:30</a> LXX; MT omits his</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.8.36.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.36">8:36</a> Or who sins against me</aside> <section id="cross-references-Proverbs.8" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.1.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.1">8:1-3</a> Pr 1:20–21; 9:3,13–15</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.3.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.3">8:3</a> Jb 29:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.7.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.7">8:7</a> Ps 37:30</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.8.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.8">8:8</a> Dt 32:5; Pr 2:15; Php 2:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.9.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.9">8:9</a> Pr 14:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.10.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.10">8:10</a> Pr 3:14–15; 8:19; 16:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.11.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.11">8:11</a> Jb 28:12–19</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.11.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.11">8:11</a> Pr 3:15; 20:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.12.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.12">8:12</a> Pr 1:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.13.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.13">8:13</a> Pr 16:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.14.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.14">8:14</a> Ec 7:19</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.15.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.15">8:15</a> 2Ch 1:10; Dn 2:21; Rm 13:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.17.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.17">8:17</a> 1Sm 2:30; Jn 14:21</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.17.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.17">8:17</a> Pr 1:28; 2:4–5; Jms 1:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.18.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.18">8:18</a> Pr 3:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.18.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.18">8:18</a> Ps 112:3; Mt 6:33</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.19.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.19">8:19</a> Jb 28:15; Pr 3:14; 8:10; 16:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.22.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.22">8:22</a> Gn 1:1; Jb 28:26–28; Ps 104:24</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.23.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.23">8:23</a> Jn 1:1–3; 17:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.24.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.24">8:24</a> Gn 1:2; Pr 3:20</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.25.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.25">8:25</a> Ps 90:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.27.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.27">8:27</a> Pr 3:19</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.27.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.27">8:27</a> Jb 26:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.29.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.29">8:29</a> Jb 38:8–11; Ps 104:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.29.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.29">8:29</a> Jb 38:4–5; Ps 104:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.30.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.30">8:30</a> Jb 28:20–27; 38–39; Pr 3:19–20; Jr 10:12; 51:15; Zch 13:7; Jn 1:2–3</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.31.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.31">8:31</a> Jb 38:4–7</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.31.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.31">8:31</a> Heb 2:6–8</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.32.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.32">8:32</a> Ps 119:1–2; 128:1; Lk 11:28</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.33.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.33">8:33</a> Pr 4:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.34.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.34">8:34</a> Pr 3:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.35.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.35">8:35</a> Pr 4:4,22; 7:2; 9:11; 12:28; Jn 17:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.35.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.35">8:35</a> Pr 3:4; 12:2; 13:13; 18:22</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.8.36.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.8.36">8:36</a> Pr 15:32</aside><aside 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