8Proverbs 8

1Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?Select Proverbs 8:1

2Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths,Select Proverbs 8:2

3Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying:Select Proverbs 8:3

4O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.Select Proverbs 8:4

5O little ones understand subtlety, and ye unwise, take notice.Select Proverbs 8:5

6Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.Select Proverbs 8:6

7My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.Select Proverbs 8:7

8All my words are just, there is nothing wicked, nor perverse in them.Select Proverbs 8:8

9They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.Select Proverbs 8:9

10Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold.Select Proverbs 8:10

11For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it.Select Proverbs 8:11

12I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts.Select Proverbs 8:12

13The fear of the Lord hateth evil; I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.Select Proverbs 8:13

14Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.Select Proverbs 8:14

15By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.Select Proverbs 8:15

16By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.Select Proverbs 8:16

17I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me.Select Proverbs 8:17

18With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.Select Proverbs 8:18

19For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.Select Proverbs 8:19

20I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,Select Proverbs 8:20

21That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures.Select Proverbs 8:21

22The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.Select Proverbs 8:22

23I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made.Select Proverbs 8:23

24The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out.Select Proverbs 8:24

25The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been established: before the hills, I was brought forth:Select Proverbs 8:25

26He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.Select Proverbs 8:26

27When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law, and compass, he enclosed the depths:Select Proverbs 8:27

28When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:Select Proverbs 8:28

29When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth;Select Proverbs 8:29

30I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;Select Proverbs 8:30

31Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.Select Proverbs 8:31

32Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways.Select Proverbs 8:32

33Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.Select Proverbs 8:33

34Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.Select Proverbs 8:34

35He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.Select Proverbs 8:35

36But he that shall sin against me shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.Select Proverbs 8:36