Proverbs 8:1 ASV: 


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Proverbs 8:1: 
Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?

Proverbs 8:2: 
On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;

Proverbs 8:3: 
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:

Proverbs 8:4: 
Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.

Proverbs 8:5: 
O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

Proverbs 8:6: 
Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.

Proverbs 8:7: 
For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Proverbs 8:8: 
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

Proverbs 8:9: 
They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.

Proverbs 8:10: 
Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.

Proverbs 8:11: 
For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.

Proverbs 8:12: 
I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge `and' discretion.

Proverbs 8:13: 
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 8:14: 
Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.

Proverbs 8:15: 
By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.

Proverbs 8:16: 
By me princes rule, And nobles, `even' all the judges of the earth.

Proverbs 8:17: 
I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.

Proverbs 8:18: 
Riches and honor are with me; `Yea', durable wealth and righteousness.

Proverbs 8:19: 
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.

Proverbs 8:20: 
I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;

Proverbs 8:21: 
That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their treasuries.

Proverbs 8:22: 
Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.

Proverbs 8:23: 
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.

Proverbs 8:24: 
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.

Proverbs 8:25: 
Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;

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

Proverbs 8:27: 
When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,

Proverbs 8:28: 
When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,

Proverbs 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;

Proverbs 8:30: 
Then I was by him, `as' a master workman; And I was daily `his' delight, Rejoicing always before him,

Proverbs 8:31: 
Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.

Proverbs 8:32: 
Now therefore, `my' sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways.

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

Proverbs 8:34: 
Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.

Proverbs 8:35: 
For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.

Proverbs 8:36: 
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.