| 章 |
| 8:1 |
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding give forth her voice?
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| 8:2 |
On the top of high places by the way, at the cross-paths she taketh her stand.
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| 8:3 |
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud.
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| 8:4 |
Unto you, men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man:
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| 8:5 |
O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense.
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| 8:6 |
Hear, for I will speak excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
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| 8:7 |
For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
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| 8:8 |
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing tortuous or perverse in them.
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| 8:9 |
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
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| 8:10 |
Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold:
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| 8:11 |
for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not equal to it.
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| 8:12 |
I wisdom dwell [with] prudence, and find the knowledge [which cometh] of reflection.
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| 8:13 |
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.
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| 8:14 |
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength.
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| 8:15 |
By me kings reign, and rulers make just decrees;
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| 8:16 |
by me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth.
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| 8:17 |
I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.
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| 8:18 |
Riches and honour are with me; durable wealth and righteousness.
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| 8:19 |
My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
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| 8:20 |
I walk in the path of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
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| 8:21 |
that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasuries.
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| 8:22 |
Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
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| 8:23 |
I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.
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| 8:24 |
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
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| 8:25 |
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;
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| 8:26 |
while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
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| 8:27 |
When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he ordained the circle upon the face of the deep;
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| 8:28 |
when he established the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong;
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| 8:29 |
when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
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| 8:30 |
then I was by him [his] nursling, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
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| 8:31 |
rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights [were] with the sons of men.
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| 8:32 |
And now, sons, hearken unto me, and blessed are they that keep my ways:
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| 8:33 |
hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
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| 8:34 |
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
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| 8:35 |
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of Jehovah;
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| 8:36 |
but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
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