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8:1  Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice?
8:2  In the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she standeth;
8:3  Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
8:4  Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of men.
8:5  O ye simple, understand subtilty; and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
8:6  Hear, for I will speak excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
8:7  For my mouth shall utter truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8:8  All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing crooked 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 unto her.
8:12  I wisdom have made subtilty my dwelling, and find out knowledge and discretion.
8:13  The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
8:14  Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.
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 diligently shall find me.
8:18  Riches and honour 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 walk 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 that I may fill their treasuries.
8:22  The LORD possessed me in 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 beginning of the dust of the world.
8:27  When he established the heavens, I was there: when he set a circle upon the face of the deep:
8:28  When he made firm the sides above: when the fountains of the deep became strong:
8:29  When he gave to the sea its bound, that the waters should not transgress his commandment: when he marked out the foundations of the earth:
8:30  Then I was by him, as a master workman: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
8:31  Rejoicing in his habitable earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.
8:32  Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me: 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 favour of the LORD.
8:36  But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.