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Proverbs 7

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 8
#### 1 | Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?
#### 2 | On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;
#### 3 | Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
#### 4 | Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.
#### 5 | O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.
#### 6 | Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.
#### 7 | For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
#### 8 | All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
#### 9 | They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.
#### 10 | Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.
#### 11 | For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.
#### 12 | I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge [and] discretion.
#### 13 | The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.
#### 14 | Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.
#### 15 | By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.
#### 16 | By me princes rule, And nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.
#### 17 | I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.
#### 18 | Riches and honor are with me; [Yea], durable wealth and righteousness.
#### 19 | My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.
#### 20 | I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;
#### 21 | That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their treasuries.
#### 22 | Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.
#### 23 | I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.
#### 24 | When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.
#### 25 | Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;
#### 26 | While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
#### 27 | When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
#### 28 | When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,
#### 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;
#### 30 | Then I was by him, [as] a master workman; And I was daily [his] delight, Rejoicing always before him,
#### 31 | Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.
#### 32 | Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways.
#### 33 | Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not.
#### 34 | Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.
#### 35 | For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.
#### 36 | But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.

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