rsv - 8

rsv@Proverbs:8:1 @ Does not wisdom call, does not understanding raise her voice?

rsv@Proverbs:8:2 @ On the heights beside the way, in the paths she takes her stand;

rsv@Proverbs:8:3 @ beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:

rsv@Proverbs:8:4 @ "To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the sons of men.

rsv@Proverbs:8:5 @ O simple ones, learn prudence; O foolish men, pay attention.

rsv@Proverbs:8:6 @ Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right;

rsv@Proverbs:8:7 @ for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

rsv@Proverbs:8:8 @ All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.

rsv@Proverbs:8:9 @ They are all straight to him who understands and right to those who find knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:8:10 @ Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold;

rsv@Proverbs:8:11 @ for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.

rsv@Proverbs:8:12 @ I, wisdom, dwell in prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.

rsv@Proverbs:8:13 @ The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

rsv@Proverbs:8:14 @ I have counsel and sound wisdom, I have insight, I have strength.

rsv@Proverbs:8:15 @ By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just;

rsv@Proverbs:8:16 @ by me princes rule, and nobles govern the earth.

rsv@Proverbs:8:17 @ I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

rsv@Proverbs:8:18 @ Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and prosperity.

rsv@Proverbs:8:19 @ My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.

rsv@Proverbs:8:20 @ I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,

rsv@Proverbs:8:21 @ endowing with wealth those who love me, and filling their treasuries.

rsv@Proverbs:8:22 @ The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.

rsv@Proverbs:8:23 @ Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

rsv@Proverbs:8:24 @ When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.

rsv@Proverbs:8:25 @ Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth;

rsv@Proverbs:8:26 @ before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.

rsv@Proverbs:8:27 @ When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

rsv@Proverbs:8:28 @ when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,

rsv@Proverbs:8:29 @ when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

rsv@Proverbs:8:30 @ then I was beside him, like a master workman; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,

rsv@Proverbs:8:31 @ rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men.

rsv@Proverbs:8:32 @ And now, my sons, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.

rsv@Proverbs:8:33 @ Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.

rsv@Proverbs:8:34 @ Happy is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.

rsv@Proverbs:8:35 @ For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD;

rsv@Proverbs:8:36 @ but he who misses me injures himself; all who hate me love death."

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