📖 Proverbs 8
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The Appeal of Wisdom Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice?
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At the top of the prominent places along the way, at the intersection of the paths she has taken her stand;
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beside the gates opening into the city, at the entrance of the doorways she cries out:
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“To you, O people, I call out, and my voice calls to all mankind.
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You who are naive, discern wisdom! And you fools, understand discernment!
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Listen, for I will speak excellent things, and my lips will utter what is right.
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For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.
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All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing in them twisted or crooked.
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All of them are clear to the discerning and upright to those who find knowledge.
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Receive my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
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For wisdom is better than rubies, and desirable things cannot be compared to her.
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“I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
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The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.
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Counsel and sound wisdom belong to me; I possess understanding and might.
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By me kings reign, and by me potentates decree righteousness;
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by me princes rule, as well as nobles and all righteous judges.
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I will love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.
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Riches and honor are with me, long-lasting wealth and righteousness.
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My fruit is better than the purest gold, and my harvest is better than choice silver.
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I walk in the path of righteousness, in the pathway of justice,
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that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, and that I may fill their treasuries.
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The LORD created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago.
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From eternity I have been fashioned, from the beginning, from before the world existed.
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When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;
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before the mountains were set in place– before the hills– I was born,
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before he made the earth and its fields, or the top soil of the world.
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When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,
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when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,
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when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
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then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times,
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rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.
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“So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.
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Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.
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Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching at my doors day by day, waiting beside my doorway.
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For the one who finds me has found life and received favor from the LORD.
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But the one who misses me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death."