apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:1 @ Wisdom shall praise herself, and shall glory in the midst of her people.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:2 @ In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:3 @ I came out of the mouth of the most High, and covered the earth as a cloud.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:4 @ I dwelt in high places, and my throne is in a cloudy pillar.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:5 @ I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the bottom of the deep.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:6 @ In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every people and nation, I got a possession.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:7 @ With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall I abide?
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:8 @ So the Creator of all things gave me a commandment, and he that made me caused my tabernacle to rest, and said, Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thine inheritance in Israel.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:9 @ He created me from the beginning before the world, and I shall never fail.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:10 @ In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I established in Sion.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:11 @ Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest, and in Jerusalem was my power.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:12 @ And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord's inheritance.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:13 @ I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree upon the mountains of Hermon.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:14 @ I was exalted like a palm tree in En-gaddi, and as a rose plant in Jericho, as a fair olive tree in a pleasant field, and grew up as a plane tree by the water.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:15 @ I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, and I yielded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:16 @ As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:17 @ As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:18 @ I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope: I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children which are named of him.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:19 @ Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill yourselves with my fruits.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:20 @ For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:21 @ They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:22 @ He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that work by me shall not do amiss.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:23 @ All these things are the book of the covenant of the most high God, even the law which Moses commanded for an heritage unto the congregations of Jacob.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:24 @ Faint not to be strong in the Lord; that he may confirm you, cleave unto him: for the Lord Almighty is God alone, and beside him there is no other Saviour.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:25 @ He filleth all things with his wisdom, as Phison and as Tigris in the time of the new fruits.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:26 @ He maketh the understanding to abound like Euphrates, and as Jordan in the time of the harvest.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:27 @ He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appear as the light, and as Geon in the time of vintage.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:28 @ The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last find her out.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:29 @ For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profounder than the great deep.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:30 @ I also came out as a brook from a river, and as a conduit into a garden.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:31 @ I said, I will water my best garden, and will water abundantly my garden bed: and, lo, my brook became a river, and my river became a sea.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:32 @ I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will send forth her light afar off.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:33 @ I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and leave it to all ages for ever.
apocrypha_kjv@BenSira:24:34 @ Behold that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all them that seek wisdom.