Proverbs 8
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| 1 | Doeth not Wisedome crie? & Understanding put foorth her voice? |
| 2 | Shee standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the pathes. |
| 3 | She cryeth at the gates, at the entrie of the citie, at the comming in at the doores. |
| 4 | Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sonnes of man. |
| 5 | O yee simple, vnderstand wisedome: and yee fooles, be yee of an vnderstanding heart. |
| 6 | Heare, for I will speake of excellent things: and the opening of my lippes shalbe right things. |
| 7 | For my mouth shall speake truth, and wickednesse is an abomination to my lippes. |
| 8 | All the words of my mouth are in righteousnes, there is nothing froward or peruerse in them. |
| 9 | They are all plaine to him that vnderstandeth: and right to them that find knowledge. |
| 10 | Receiue my instruction, and not siluer: and knowledge rather then choise gold. |
| 11 | For wisedome is better then rubies: and all the things that may be desired, are not to be compared to it. |
| 12 | I wisedome dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inuentions. |
| 13 | The feare of the Lord is to hate euill: pride and arrogancie, and the euill way, and the froward mouth doe I hate. |
| 14 | Counsell is mine, and sound wisedome: I am vnderstanding, I haue strength. |
| 15 | By me kings reigne, and princes decree iustice. |
| 16 | By me Princes rule, and Nobles, euen all the Iudges of the earth. |
| 17 | I loue them that loue me, and those that seeke me early, shall find me. |
| 18 | Riches and honour are with me, yea durable riches and righteousnesse. |
| 19 | My fruite is better then gold, yea then fine gold, and my reuenue then choise siluer. |
| 20 | I leade in the way of righteousnesse, in the midst of the pathes of iudgment. |
| 21 | That I may cause those that loue me, to inherite substance: and I will fill their treasures. |
| 22 | The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. |
| 23 | I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning, or euer the earth was. |
| 24 | When there were no depthes, I was brought forth: when there were no fountaines abounding with water. |
| 25 | Before the mountaines were setled: before the hilles, was I brought foorth: |
| 26 | While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. |
| 27 | When hee prepared the heauens, I was there: when he set a compasse vpon the face of the depth. |
| 28 | When he established the cloudes aboue: when he strengthned the fountaines of the deepe. |
| 29 | When he gaue to the sea his decree, that the waters should not passe his commandement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: |
| 30 | Then I was by him, as one brought vp with him: and I was daily his delight, reioycing alwayes before him: |
| 31 | Reioycing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sonnes of men. |
| 32 | Nowe therefore hearken vnto me, O yee children: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes. |
| 33 | Heare instruction, and bee wise, and refuse it not. |
| 34 | Blessed is the man that heareth me: watching daily at my gates, waiting at the postes of my doores. |
| 35 | For whoso findeth mee, findeth life, and shall obtaine fauour of the Lord. |
| 36 | But hee that sinneth against me, wrongeth his owne soule; all they that hate me, loue death. |