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Proverbs 8 📜 📕 ↷
Excellence of Wisdom
1 Doth not wisdom cry, and prudence give her voice?📜💬📚
2 Standing in the high & lofty tops over the way, in the midst of the paths,📜💬📚
3 beside the gates of the city in the very doors she speaketh, saying:📜💬📚
4 O men, to you I cry, and my voice is to the children of men.📜💬📚
5 O little ones understand subtilty, and ye unwise, mark.📜💬📚
6 Hear ye, because I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.📜💬📚
7 My throat shall meditate truth, and my lips shall detest the impious.📜💬📚
8 All my words are just, there is no wicked, nor perverse thing in them.📜💬📚
9 They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.📜💬📚
10 Receive ye discipline, & not money: choose doctrine rather than gold.📜💬📚
11 For wisdom is better than all most precious riches: and whatsoever is to be desired can not be compared to it.📜💬📚
12 I wisdom dwell in counsel, and am present in learned cogitations.📜💬📚
13 The fear of our Lord hateth evil: arrogancy, and pride, and wicked way, and a double tongued mouth I do detest.📜💬📚
14 Mine is counsel & equity, prudence is mine, strength is mine.📜💬📚
15 By me kings do reign, and the makers of laws decree just things.📜💬📚
16 By me Princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.📜💬📚
17 I love them that love me: and they that watch toward me shall find me.📜💬📚
18 With me are riches, and glory, glorious riches, and justice.📜💬📚
19 For my fruit is better than gold and precious stone, and my blossoms than chosen silver.📜💬📚
20 I walk in the ways of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,📜💬📚
21 that I may enrich them that love me, and may replenish their treasures.📜💬📚
22 Our Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he had made any thing from the beginning.📜💬📚
23 From eternity I was ordained & of old before the earth was made.📜💬📚
24 The depths were not as yet, and I was now conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet gushed forth:📜💬📚
25 the mountains with heavy hugeness stood not as yet: before the little hills I was brought forth:📜💬📚
26 he had not yet made the earth, and the rivers, and the poles of the round world.📜💬📚
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and circuit he compassed the depths:📜💬📚
28 When he established the firmament above, & poised the fountains of water:📜💬📚
29 when he compassed the sea with her limits, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their bounds: when he hanged the foundations of the earth,📜💬📚
30 I was with him framing all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all time,📜💬📚
31 playing in the world: & my delights to be with the children of men.📜💬📚
32 Now therefore children hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.📜💬📚
33 Hear ye discipline, and be wise, and reject it not.📜💬📚
34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, & that watcheth at my doors daily, & waiteth at the posts of my door.📜💬📚
35 He that shall find me shall find life, and shall draw salvation of our Lord:📜💬📚
36 but he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me, love death.📜💬📚
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