Chapters
PROVERBS (31 chapters)
PROVERBS 8
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Whether wisdom crieth not oft; and prudence giveth her voice?
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In most sovereign and high tops, above the way, in the midst of paths,
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and it standeth beside the gates of the city, in those enclosings, and speaketh, and saith,
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A! ye men, I cry oft to you; and my voice is to the sons of men.
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Little children, that is, little of wit, understand ye wisdom; and ye unwise men, perceiveth in heart.
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Hear ye, for I shall speak of great things; and my lips shall be opened, to preach rightful [or even] things.
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My throat shall bethink truth; and my lips shall curse a wicked man.
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My words be just; no shrewd thing, neither wayward is in those.
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They be rightful [or right] to them that understand; and they be even to them that find knowing.
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Take ye my chastising [or my discipline], and not money; choose ye teaching, more than treasure.
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For wisdom is better than all riches most precious; and all desirable thing may not be comparisoned thereto.
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I, wisdom, dwell in counsel; and I am among learned thoughts.
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The dread of the Lord hateth evil; I curse boast, and pride, and a shrewd way, and a double-tongued mouth.
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Counsel is mine, and equity; prudence is mine, and strength.
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Kings reign by me; and makers of laws deem just things by me.
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Princes command by me; and mighty men deem rightfulness [or rightwiseness]by me.
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I love them that love me; and they that wake early to me, shall find me.
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With me be riches, and glory; sovereign riches, and rightfulness [or rightwiseness].
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My fruit is better than gold, and precious stone; and my seeds [or my burgeonings]be better than chosen silver.
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I go in the ways of rightfulness [or rightwiseness], in the midst of the paths of doom;
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that I make rich them that love me, and that I fill their treasures or their treasuries.
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The Lord wielded me in the beginning of his ways; before that he made anything, at the beginning.
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From without beginning I was ordained; and from eld [or old] times, before that the earth was made.
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[The] Depths of waters were not yet; and I was conceived then. The wells of waters had not broken out yet,
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and hills stood not altogether yet by firm heaviness; before little hills I was born.
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Yet he had not made [the] earth; and floods, and the earths of the world.
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When he made ready heavens, I was present; when he compassed [or enclosed] the depths of waters by certain law and compass.
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When he made steadfast the air above; and weighed the wells of waters.
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When he compassed to the sea his mark; and setted [or put] law to waters, that they should not pass their coasts. When he weighed the foundaments of [the] earth;
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I was making all things with him. And I delighted by all days, and played before him in all time,
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and I played in the world; and my delights be to be with the sons of men.
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Now, therefore, sons, hear ye me; blessed be they that keep my ways.
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Hear ye teaching, and be ye wise men; and do not ye cast it away.
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Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth at my gates all day; and keepeth [or waiteth] at the posts of my door[s].
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He that findeth me, shall find life; and he shall draw health of the Lord.
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But he that sinneth against me shall hurt his soul; all that hate me, love death.