8Proverbs 8

CHAP. VIII. / 1 The fame, 6 and euidencie of wisedome. 10 The excellencie, 12 the nature, 15 the power, 18 the riches, 22 and the eternitie of wisedome. 32 Wisedome is to be desired for the blessednes

1Doeth not Wisedome crie? & Understanding put foorth her voice?Select Proverbs 8:1

2Shee standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the pathes.Select Proverbs 8:2

3She cryeth at the gates, at the entrie of the citie, at the comming in at the doores.Select Proverbs 8:3

4Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sonnes of man.Select Proverbs 8:4

5O yee simple, vnderstand wisedome: and yee fooles, be yee of an vnderstanding heart.Select Proverbs 8:5

6Heare, for I will speake of excellent things: and the opening of my lippes shalbe right things.Select Proverbs 8:6

7For my mouth shall speake truth, and wickednesse is an abomination to my lippes.Select Proverbs 8:7

8All the words of my mouth are in righteousnes, there is nothing froward or peruerse in them.Select Proverbs 8:8

9They are all plaine to him that vnderstandeth: and right to them that find knowledge.Select Proverbs 8:9

10Receiue my instruction, and not siluer: and knowledge rather then choise gold.Select Proverbs 8:10

11For wisedome is better then rubies: and all the things that may be desired, are not to be compared to it.Select Proverbs 8:11

12I wisedome dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inuentions.Select Proverbs 8:12

13The feare of the Lord is to hate euill: pride and arrogancie, and the euill way, and the froward mouth doe I hate.Select Proverbs 8:13

14Counsell is mine, and sound wisedome: I am vnderstanding, I haue strength.Select Proverbs 8:14

15By me kings reigne, and princes decree iustice.Select Proverbs 8:15

16By me Princes rule, and Nobles, euen all the Iudges of the earth.Select Proverbs 8:16

17I loue them that loue me, and those that seeke me early, shall find me.Select Proverbs 8:17

18Riches and honour are with me, yea durable riches and righteousnesse.Select Proverbs 8:18

19My fruite is better then gold, yea then fine gold, and my reuenue then choise siluer.Select Proverbs 8:19

20I leade in the way of righteousnesse, in the midst of the pathes of iudgment.Select Proverbs 8:20

21That I may cause those that loue me, to inherite substance: and I will fill their treasures.Select Proverbs 8:21

22The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.Select Proverbs 8:22

23I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning, or euer the earth was.Select Proverbs 8:23

24When there were no depthes, I was brought forth: when there were no fountaines abounding with water.Select Proverbs 8:24

25Before the mountaines were setled: before the hilles, was I brought foorth:Select Proverbs 8:25

26While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.Select Proverbs 8:26

27When hee prepared the heauens, I was there: when he set a compasse vpon the face of the depth.Select Proverbs 8:27

28When he established the cloudes aboue: when he strengthned the fountaines of the deepe.Select Proverbs 8:28

29When he gaue to the sea his decree, that the waters should not passe his commandement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:Select Proverbs 8:29

30Then I was by him, as one brought vp with him: and I was daily his delight, reioycing alwayes before him:Select Proverbs 8:30

31Reioycing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sonnes of men.Select Proverbs 8:31

32Nowe therefore hearken vnto me, O yee children: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.Select Proverbs 8:32

33Heare instruction, and bee wise, and refuse it not.Select Proverbs 8:33

34Blessed is the man that heareth me: watching daily at my gates, waiting at the postes of my doores.Select Proverbs 8:34

35For whoso findeth mee, findeth life, and shall obtaine fauour of the Lord.Select Proverbs 8:35

36But hee that sinneth against me, wrongeth his owne soule; all they that hate me, loue death.Select Proverbs 8:36