Geneva1599 - Proverbs - 8

8:1  Doth not wisedome crie? and vnderstanding vtter her voyce?

8:2  She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths.

8:3  She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,

8:4  O men, I call vnto you, and vtter my voyce to the children of men.

8:5  O ye foolish men, vnderstand wisedome, and ye, O fooles, be wise in heart.

8:6  Giue eare, for I will speake of excellent things, and the opening of my lippes, shall teache things that be right.

8:7  For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.

8:8  All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.

8:9  They are all plaine to him that will vnderstande, and streight to them that woulde finde knowledge.

8:10  Receiue mine instruction, and not siluer, and knowledge rather then fine golde.

8:11  For wisdome is better then precious stones: and all pleasures are not to be compared vnto her.

8:12  I wisdome dwell with prudence, and I find foorth knowledge and counsels.

8:13  The feare of the Lord is to hate euill as pride, and arrogancie, and the euill way: and a mouth that speaketh lewde things, I doe hate.

8:14  I haue counsell and wisedome: I am vnderstanding, and I haue strength.

8:15  By me, Kings reigne, and princes decree iustice.

8:16  By me princes rule and the nobles, and all the iudges of the earth.

8:17  I loue them that loue me: and they that seeke me earely, shall finde me.

8:18  Riches and honour are with me: euen durable riches and righteousnesse.

8:19  My fruite is better then golde, euen then fine golde, and my reuenues better then fine siluer.

8:20  I cause to walke in the way of righteousnes, and in the middes of the paths of iudgement,

8:21  That I may cause them that loue me, to inherite substance, and I will fill their treasures.

8:22  The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: I was before his workes of olde.

8:23  I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning and before the earth.

8:24  When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.

8:25  Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.

8:26  He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.

8:27  When hee prepared the heauens, I was there, when he set the compasse vpon the deepe.

8:28  When he established the cloudes aboue, when he confirmed the fountaines of the deepe,

8:29  When he gaue his decree to the Sea, that the waters shoulde not passe his commandement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth,

8:30  Then was I with him as a nourisher, and I was dayly his delight reioycing alway before him,

8:31  And tooke my solace in the compasse of his earth: and my delite is with the children of men.

8:32  Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.

8:33  Heare instruction, and be ye wise, and refuse it not: blessed is the man that heareth mee, watching dayly at my gates, and giuing attendance at the postes of my doores.

8:34  For he that findeth me, findeth life, and shall obteine fauour of the Lord.

8:35  But he that sinneth against me, hurteth his owne soule: and all that hate me, loue death.