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Proverbs 8:1 (ASV)
Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?

Proverbs 8:2 (ASV)
On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;

Proverbs 8:3 (ASV)
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:

Proverbs 8:4 (ASV)
Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.

Proverbs 8:5 (ASV)
O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

Proverbs 8:6 (ASV)
Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.

Proverbs 8:7 (ASV)
For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Proverbs 8:8 (ASV)
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

Proverbs 8:9 (ASV)
They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.

Proverbs 8:10 (ASV)
Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.

Proverbs 8:11 (ASV)
For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.

Proverbs 8:12 (ASV)
I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge `and' discretion.

Proverbs 8:13 (ASV)
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 8:14 (ASV)
Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.

Proverbs 8:15 (ASV)
By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.

Proverbs 8:16 (ASV)
By me princes rule, And nobles, `even' all the judges of the earth.

Proverbs 8:17 (ASV)
I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.

Proverbs 8:18 (ASV)
Riches and honor are with me; `Yea', durable wealth and righteousness.

Proverbs 8:19 (ASV)
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.

Proverbs 8:20 (ASV)
I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;

Proverbs 8:21 (ASV)
That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their treasuries.

Proverbs 8:22 (ASV)
Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.

Proverbs 8:23 (ASV)
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.

Proverbs 8:24 (ASV)
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.

Proverbs 8:25 (ASV)
Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;

Proverbs 8:26 (ASV)
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

Proverbs 8:27 (ASV)
When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,

Proverbs 8:28 (ASV)
When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,

Proverbs 8:29 (ASV)
When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;

Proverbs 8:30 (ASV)
Then I was by him, `as' a master workman; And I was daily `his' delight, Rejoicing always before him,

Proverbs 8:31 (ASV)
Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.

Proverbs 8:32 (ASV)
Now therefore, `my' sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways.

Proverbs 8:33 (ASV)
Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not.

Proverbs 8:34 (ASV)
Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.

Proverbs 8:35 (ASV)
For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.

Proverbs 8:36 (ASV)
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.

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