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| [1]Doth not wisdom cry? And understanding utter her voice? |
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| [2]She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths. |
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| [3]She crieth besides the gates before the city at the entry of the doors, |
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| [4]O men, I call unto you, and utter my voice to the children of men. |
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| [5]O ye foolish men, understand wisdom, and ye, O fools, be wise in heart. |
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| [6]Give ear, for I will speak of excellent things, and the opening of my lips, shall teach things that be right. |
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| [7]For my mouth shall speak the truth, and my lips abhor wickedness. |
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| [8]All the words of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdness, nor frowardness in them. |
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| [9]They are all plain to him that will understand, and straight to them that would find knowledge. |
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| [10]Receive mine instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than fine gold. |
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| [11]For wisdom is better than precious stones: and all pleasures are not to be compared unto her. |
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| [12]I wisdom dwell with prudence, and I find forth knowledge and counsels. |
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| [13]The fear of the Lord is to hate evil as pride, and arrogance, and the evil way: and a mouth that speaketh lewd things, I do hate. |
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| [14]I have counsel and wisdom: I am understanding, and I have strength. |
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| [15]By me, kings reign, and princes decree justice. |
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| [16]By me princes rule and the nobles, and all the judges of the earth. |
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| [17]I love them that love me: and they that seek me early, shall find me. |
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| [18]Riches and honor are with me: even durable riches and righteousness. |
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| [19]My fruit is better than gold, even than fine gold, and my revenues better than fine silver. |
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| [20]I cause to walk in the way of righteousness, and in the midst of the paths of judgment, |
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| [21]That I may cause them that love me, to inherit substance, and I will fill their treasures. |
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| [22]The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: I was before his works of old. |
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| [23]I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning and before the earth. |
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| [24]When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountains abounding with water. |
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| [25]Before the mountains were settled: and before the hills, was I begotten. |
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| [26]He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the world. |
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| [27]When he prepared the heavens, I was there, when he set the compass upon the deep. |
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| [28]When he established the clouds above, when he confirmed the fountains of the deep, |
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| [29]When he gave his decree to the sea, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth, |
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| [30]Then was I with him as a nourisher, and I was daily his delight rejoicing alway before him, |
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| [31]And took my solace in the compass of his earth: and my delight is with the children of men. |
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| [32]Therefore now hearken, O children, unto me: for blessed are they that keep my ways. |
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| [33]Hear instruction, and be ye wise, and refuse it not: blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, and giving attendance at the posts of my doors. |
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| [34]For he that findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord. |
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| [35]But he that sinneth against me, hurteth his own soul: and all that hate me, love death. |
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