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id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NASB 1995</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/proverbs/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Commendation of Wisdom</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>Does not wisdom call,<br> And understanding lift up her voice?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>On top of the heights beside the way,<br> Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>Beside the gates, at the opening to the city,<br> At the entrance of the doors, she cries out:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>“To you, O men, I call,<br> And my voice is to the sons of men.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>“O naive ones, understand prudence;<br> And, O fools, understand wisdom.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>“Listen, for I will speak noble things;<br> And the opening of my lips <i>will reveal</i> right things.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>“For my mouth will utter truth;<br> And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>“All the utterances of my mouth are in righteousness;<br> There is nothing crooked or perverted in them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>“They are all straightforward to him who understands,<br> And right to those who find knowledge.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>“Take my instruction and not silver,<br> And knowledge rather than choicest gold.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>“For wisdom is better than jewels;<br> And all desirable things cannot compare with her.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,<br> And I find knowledge <i>and</i> discretion.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>“The fear of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is to hate evil;<br> Pride and arrogance and the evil way<br> And the perverted mouth, I hate.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>“Counsel is mine and sound wisdom;<br> I am understanding, power is mine.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>“By me kings reign,<br> And rulers decree justice.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>“By me princes rule, and nobles,<br> All who judge rightly.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>“I love those who love me;<br> And those who diligently seek me will find me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>“Riches and honor are with me,<br> Enduring wealth and righteousness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>“My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold,<br> And my yield <i>better</i> than choicest silver.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>“I walk in the way of righteousness,<br> In the midst of the paths of justice,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>To endow those who love me with wealth,<br> That I may fill their treasuries.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>“The L<font size="1">ORD</font> possessed me at the beginning of His way,<br> Before His works of old.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>“From everlasting I was established,<br> From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>“When there were no depths I was brought forth,<br> When there were no springs abounding with water.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>“Before the mountains were settled,<br> Before the hills I was brought forth;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>While He had not yet made the earth and the fields,<br> Nor the first dust of the world.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>“When He established the heavens, I was there,<br> When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>When He made firm the skies above,<br> When the springs of the deep became fixed,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>When He set for the sea its boundary<br> So that the water would not transgress His command,<br> When He marked out the foundations of the earth;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Then I was beside Him, <i>as</i> a master workman;<br> And I was daily <i>His</i> delight,<br> Rejoicing always before Him,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Rejoicing in the world, His earth,<br> And <i>having</i> my delight in the sons of men.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>“Now therefore, <i>O</i> sons, listen to me,<br> For blessed are they who keep my ways.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>“Heed instruction and be wise,<br> And do not neglect <i>it.</i><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>“Blessed is the man who listens to me,<br> Watching daily at my gates,<br> Waiting at my doorposts.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>“For he who finds me finds life<br> And obtains favor from the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>“But he who sins against me injures himself;<br> All those who hate me love death.”<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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