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| | Pro 8:1 | Does not wisdom call, And understanding lift up her voice?
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| | Pro 8:2 | On top of the heights beside the way, Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
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| | Pro 8:3 | Beside the gates, at the opening to the city, At the entrance of the doors, she cries out:
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| | Pro 8:4 | "To you, O men, I call, And my voice is to the sons of men.
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| | Pro 8:5 | "O naive ones, understand prudence; And, O fools, understand wisdom.
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| | Pro 8:6 | "Listen, for I will speak noble things; And the opening of my lips will reveal right things.
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| | Pro 8:7 | "For my mouth will utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
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| | Pro 8:8 | "All the utterances of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverted in them.
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| | Pro 8:9 | "They are all straightforward to him who understands, And right to those who find knowledge.
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| | Pro 8:10 | "Take my instruction and not silver, And knowledge rather than choicest gold.
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| | Pro 8:11 | "For wisdom is better than jewels; And all desirable things cannot compare with her.
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| | Pro 8:12 | "I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, And I find knowledge and discretion.
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| | Pro 8:13 | "The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverted mouth, I hate.
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| | Pro 8:14 | "Counsel is mine and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine.
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| | Pro 8:15 | "By me kings reign, And rulers decree justice.
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| | Pro 8:16 | "By me princes rule, and nobles, All who judge rightly.
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| | Pro 8:17 | "I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me will find me.
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| | Pro 8:18 | "Riches and honor are with me, Enduring wealth and righteousness.
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| | Pro 8:19 | "My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold, And my yield better than choicest silver.
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| | Pro 8:20 | "I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice,
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| | Pro 8:21 | To endow those who love me with wealth, That I may fill their treasuries.
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| | Pro 8:22 | "The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old.
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| | Pro 8:23 | "From everlasting I was established, From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.
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| | Pro 8:24 | "When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.
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| | Pro 8:25 | "Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth;
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| | Pro 8:26 | While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world.
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| | Pro 8:27 | "When He established the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
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| | Pro 8:28 | When He made firm the skies above, When the springs of the deep became fixed,
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| | Pro 8:29 | When He set for the sea its boundary So that the water would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth;
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| | Pro 8:30 | Then I was beside Him, as a master workman; And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him,
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| | Pro 8:31 | Rejoicing in the world, His earth, And having my delight in the sons of men.
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| | Pro 8:32 | "Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, For blessed are they who keep my ways.
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| | Pro 8:33 | "Heed instruction and be wise, And do not neglect it.
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| | Pro 8:34 | "Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my doorposts.
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| | Pro 8:35 | "For he who finds me finds life And obtains favor from the Lord.
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| | Pro 8:36 | "But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death."
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
