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| 8:1 |
 oeth not Wisedome crie? & Understanding put foorth her voice? |
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| 8:2 |
Shee standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the pathes. |
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| 8:3 |
She cryeth at the gates, at the entrie of the citie, at the comming in at the doores. |
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| 8:4 |
Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sonnes of man. |
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| 8:5 |
O yee simple, vnderstand wisedome: and yee fooles, be yee of an vnderstanding heart. |
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| 8:6 |
Heare, for I will speake of excellent things: and the opening of my lippes shalbe right things. |
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| 8:7 |
For my mouth shall speake truth, and wickednesse is an abomination to my lippes. |
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| 8:8 |
All the words of my mouth are in righteousnes, there is nothing froward or peruerse in them. |
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| 8:9 |
They are all plaine to him that vnderstandeth: and right to them that find knowledge. |
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| 8:10 |
Receiue my instruction, and not siluer: and knowledge rather then choise gold. |
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| 8:11 |
For wisedome is better then rubies: and all the things that may be desired, are not to be compared to it. |
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| 8:12 |
I wisedome dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inuentions. |
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| 8:13 |
The feare of the Lord is to hate euill: pride and arrogancie, and the euill way, and the froward mouth doe I hate. |
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| 8:14 |
Counsell is mine, and sound wisedome: I am vnderstanding, I haue strength. |
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| 8:15 |
By me kings reigne, and princes decree iustice. |
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| 8:16 |
By me Princes rule, and Nobles, euen all the Iudges of the earth. |
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| 8:17 |
I loue them that loue me, and those that seeke me early, shall find me. |
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| 8:18 |
Riches and honour are with me, yea durable riches and righteousnesse. |
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| 8:19 |
My fruite is better then gold, yea then fine gold, and my reuenue then choise siluer. |
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| 8:20 |
I leade in the way of righteousnesse, in the midst of the pathes of iudgment. |
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| 8:21 |
That I may cause those that loue me, to inherite substance: and I will fill their treasures. |
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| 8:22 |
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. |
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| 8:23 |
I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning, or euer the earth was. |
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| 8:24 |
When there were no depthes, I was brought forth: when there were no fountaines abounding with water. |
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| 8:25 |
Before the mountaines were setled: before the hilles, was I brought foorth: |
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| 8:26 |
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. |
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| 8:27 |
When hee prepared the heauens, I was there: when he set a compasse vpon the face of the depth. |
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| 8:28 |
When he established the cloudes aboue: when he strengthned the fountaines of the deepe. |
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| 8:29 |
When he gaue to the sea his decree, that the waters should not passe his commandement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: |
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| 8:30 |
Then I was by him, as one brought vp with him: and I was daily his delight, reioycing alwayes before him: |
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| 8:31 |
Reioycing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sonnes of men. |
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| 8:32 |
Nowe therefore hearken vnto me, O yee children: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes. |
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| 8:33 |
Heare instruction, and bee wise, and refuse it not. |
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| 8:34 |
Blessed is the man that heareth me: watching daily at my gates, waiting at the postes of my doores. |
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| 8:35 |
For whoso findeth mee, findeth life, and shall obtaine fauour of the Lord. |
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| 8:36 |
But hee that sinneth against me, wrongeth his owne soule; all they that hate me, loue death. |
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