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Prov.|8:1|-|Does not wisdom |a|call,And understanding lift up her voice?
Prov.|8:2|-|On the top of the heights, by the way,Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
Prov.|8:3|-|Beside the gates, at the entry of the city,At the entrance of the doors, she cries aloud:
Prov.|8:4|-|To you, O men, I call;And my voice is to the sons of men.
Prov.|8:5|-|O simple ones, understand prudence;And, O fools, be of an understanding heart.
Prov.|8:6|-|Hear, for I will speak noble things;And the opening of my lips will yield right things.
Prov.|8:7|-|For my mouth will utter truth,And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Prov.|8:8|-|All the |a|words of my mouth are in righteousness;There is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
Prov.|8:9|-|They are all straight to him who understands,And right to those who find knowledge.
Prov.|8:10|-|Receive my instruction, and not silver;And knowledge rather than choice gold.
Prov.|8:11|-||a|For wisdom is better than corals,And nothing that you desire compares with her.
Prov.|8:12|-||1|I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,And I find knowledge and discretion.
Prov.|8:13|-|The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil;Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverse mouth, I hate.
Prov.|8:14|-|Counsel is mine and sound wisdom;I am understanding; I have might.
Prov.|8:15|-|By me kings |a|reign,And rulers decree justice.
Prov.|8:16|-|By me princes rule,And nobles—all who judge righteously.
Prov.|8:17|-|I love those who love me,And those who |a|seek me diligently will find me.
Prov.|8:18|-|Riches and honor are with me,Enduring wealth and righteousness.
Prov.|8:19|-|My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold;And my yield than choice silver.
Prov.|8:20|-|I walk in the |a|way of righteousness,In the midst of the paths of justice,
Prov.|8:21|-|That I may cause those who love me to inherit substanceAnd that I may fill their treasuries.
Prov.|8:22|-|Jehovah possessed me in the |a|beginning of His way,Before His works of old.
Prov.|8:23|-|I was set up from eternity,From the beginning, before the earth was.
Prov.|8:24|-|When there were no depths, I was |a|brought forth,When there were no fountains abounding with water.
Prov.|8:25|-|Before the mountains were settled,Before the hills, I was brought forth;
Prov.|8:26|-|When He had not yet made the earth and the fields,Nor the first dust of the world.
Prov.|8:27|-|When He |a|established the heavens, I was there;When He inscribed a |b|circle upon the surface of the deep,
Prov.|8:28|-|When He made |a|firm the skies above,When the fountains of the deep became strong,
Prov.|8:29|-|When He set for the sea its |a|boundary,That the waters should not transgress His commandment,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth;
Prov.|8:30|-|Then I was by Him, as a master workman;And I was daily His |a|delight,
Rejoicing always before Him,
Prov.|8:31|-|Rejoicing in His habitable earth;And my delight was in the sons of men.
Prov.|8:32|-|Now therefore, my sons, listen to me;For blessed are they who keep my ways.
Prov.|8:33|-|Hear instruction, and be wise;And do not neglect it.
Prov.|8:34|-|Blessed is the man who listens to me,Watching daily at my doors,
Waiting at my doorposts.
Prov.|8:35|-|For whoever finds me finds |a|life,And will obtain favor from Jehovah.
Prov.|8:36|-|But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul;All who hate me love death.
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