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8:1  Because of this, wisdom preaches, and understanding will answer you.
8:2  For on top of the high places is wisdom; between the roads and upon the side of the paths she stands.
8:3  Over the gates with her mouth she calls, and in the entrances of the gates of The Glorious City.
8:4  And she says, “To you, men, I call, and my voice to the children of men”
8:5  “That children may understand subtlety and the feeble minds may know in their heart.”
8:6  “Hear me, because it is truth that I speak, and my mouth opens with uprightness.”
8:7  “ For my mouth ruminates truth and lying lips are unclean before me.”
8:8  “And all these words of my mouth are in righteousness and there is no perversion or crookedness in them.”
8:9  “All these are plain to him who perceives them and they are right to him who chooses to know them.”
8:10  “Receive discipline and not silver, and choose for yourselves knowledge rather than refined gold.”
8:11  “Because wisdom is better than refined gold and better than precious stones, and nothing compares to it.”
8:12  “I, Wisdom, have created cunning and I own knowledge and reason.”
8:13  “The worship of Lord Jehovah is hating evil; pomp, pride, the evil way, and the perverse mouth, I hate.”
8:14  “Reason is mine and instruction; mine is understanding and mine is manly strength.”
8:15  “Because of me, Kings rule, and Rulers search out righteousness.”
8:16  “Because of me Rulers are authorized and Nobles and all Judges of righteousness.”
8:17  “I love my friends, and those who seek me will find me.”
8:18  “Riches and honor are mine, and possessions, old age and righteousness.”
8:19  “My fruits are better than refined gold and my produce than choice silver.”
8:20  “I walk in the way of righteousness and within the streets of judgment”
8:21  “That I might leave hope as an inheritance to my friends, and I shall fill their treasures.”
8:22  “Lord Jehovah created me at the beginning of his creation and from before all of his works.”
8:23  And before the world he was possessed by me, and from the beginning, before he would establish the Earth.
8:24  Before the depths would be, I was born, and before there would be waters in the springs.
8:25  And before the mountains would be established, and before the hills, I was formed in the womb.
8:26  Before he would make the Earth and the floods and the beginning of the dust of the world
8:27  When the Heavens were established, I was with him, and when he made a circle over the face of the depths.
8:28  And when he empowered the clouds from above and when he strengthened the springs of the depths,
8:29  When he set the law of the Sea and the waters would not disobey his mouth, when he made the foundations of the Earth,
8:30  I was fashioning with him; he was rejoicing in me everyday, and I have been rejoicing before him always.
8:31  I have been rejoicing in the world of his Earth and I have been glorying in the sons of man.
8:32  Therefore, children, hear me: Blessed is he who keeps my ways.
8:33  Hear instruction and receive wisdom and do not go astray.
8:34  Blessed is the man who will listen to me and will keep watch upon my gates all day and guards the posts of my gates.
8:35  Because my goings forth are the goings forth of Life, and so the will of Lord Jehovah goes forth.
8:36  And those who sin against me harm their soul, and all who hate me are the friends of death.