Proverbs 8




noyes@Proverbs:8:1 @ Doth not wisdom cry aloud, And understanding put forth her voice?

noyes@Proverbs:8:2 @ Upon the top of the high places, By the wayside, In the cross–ways, She taketh her station.

noyes@Proverbs:8:3 @ By the side of the gates, In the entrance of the city, In the approaches to the doors, she crieth aloud.

noyes@Proverbs:8:4 @ "To you, O men! do I call, And my voice is to the sons of men!

noyes@Proverbs:8:5 @ O ye simple ones! learn wisdom, And ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart!

noyes@Proverbs:8:6 @ Hear, for I speak excellent things, And my lips utter that which is right.

noyes@Proverbs:8:7 @ For my mouth speaketh truth, And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

noyes@Proverbs:8:8 @ All the words of my mouth are in uprightness; There is nothing crooked or deceitful in them;

noyes@Proverbs:8:9 @ They are all plain to the man of understanding, And right to those who find knowledge.

noyes@Proverbs:8:10 @ Receive my instruction, and not silver. And knowledge rather than choice gold!

noyes@Proverbs:8:11 @ For wisdom is better than pearls, And no precious things are to be compared with her.

noyes@Proverbs:8:12 @ "I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, And find out the knowledge of sagacious counsels.

noyes@Proverbs:8:13 @ The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, And the deceitful mouth, do I hate.

noyes@Proverbs:8:14 @ Counsel is mine, and sound reason; I am understanding; I have strength.

noyes@Proverbs:8:15 @ By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.

noyes@Proverbs:8:16 @ By me princes rule, And nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

noyes@Proverbs:8:17 @ I love them that love me, And they who seek me early shall find me.

noyes@Proverbs:8:18 @ Riches and honor are with me; Yea, durable riches and prosperity.

noyes@Proverbs:8:19 @ My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold. And my revenue than choice silver.

noyes@Proverbs:8:20 @ I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of equity.

noyes@Proverbs:8:21 @ I cause those who love me to possess substance; Yea, I fill their treasuries.

noyes@Proverbs:8:22 @ "The LORD created me, the firstling of his course, Before his works, of old;

noyes@Proverbs:8:23 @ I was anointed from everlasting, From the beginning, even before the earth was made.

noyes@Proverbs:8:24 @ When as yet there were no deeps, I was brought forth. When there were no springs, abounding with water.

noyes@Proverbs:8:25 @ Before the mountains were settled, Yea, before the hills, I was brought forth;

noyes@Proverbs:8:26 @ Ere yet he had made the land and the wastes, And the first of the clods of the earth.

noyes@Proverbs:8:27 @ When he framed the heavens, I was there; When he drew a circle upon the face of the deep;

noyes@Proverbs:8:28 @ When he made firm the sky above, And the fountains of the deep rushed forth;

noyes@Proverbs:8:29 @ When he gave to the sea its bounds, that the waters should not pass their border; When he marked out the foundations of the earth,––

noyes@Proverbs:8:30 @ Then was I by him as a master–builder; I was his delight day by day, Exulting before him at all times;

noyes@Proverbs:8:31 @ Exulting in the habitable part of his earth, And my delight was with the sons of men.

noyes@Proverbs:8:32 @ "Now, therefore, ye children, hearken to me! For happy are they who keep my ways!

noyes@Proverbs:8:33 @ Hear instruction, and be wise! Yea, reject it not!

noyes@Proverbs:8:34 @ Happy the man who hearkeneth to me, Who watcheth day by day at my gates, Who waiteth at the posts of my doors;

noyes@Proverbs:8:35 @ For he that findeth me findeth life, And obtaineth favor from the LORD;

noyes@Proverbs:8:36 @ But he who misseth me doeth violence to himself; All they who hate me love death."


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