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