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8:1  Doth not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice?
8:2  She standeth at the top of high places, by the wayside where the paths meet.
8:3  She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors:
8:4  “Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man.
8:5  O ye simple, understand wisdom; and ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
8:6  Hear, for I will speak of excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be of right things;
8:7  for my mouth shall speak truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8:8  All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
8:9  They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
8:10  Receive my instruction and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold;
8:11  for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
8:12  “I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and disclose knowledge of learned thoughts.
8:13  The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the froward mouth do I hate.
8:14  Counsel is mine and sound wisdom; I am understanding, I have strength.
8:15  By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
8:16  By me princes rule and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
8:17  I love them that love me, and those that seek me early shall find me.
8:18  Riches and honor are with me, yea, durable riches and righteousness.
8:19  My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold, and my revenue than choice silver.
8:20  I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment,
8:21  that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, and I will fill their treasuries.
8:22  “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old.
8:23  I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
8:24  When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
8:25  Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth,
8:26  while as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the first parts of dust of the world.
8:27  When He prepared the heavens, I was there; when He set a compass upon the face of the deep,
8:28  when He established the clouds above, when He strengthened the fountains of the deep,
8:29  when He gave to the sea His decree that the waters should not pass His commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth”
8:30  then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him, and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him,
8:31  rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
8:32  “Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children, for blessed are they that keep my ways.
8:33  Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
8:34  Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
8:35  For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain the favor of the Lord.
8:36  But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul; all they that hate me love death.”