Noyes - Proverbs - 8

8:1  Doth not wisdom cry aloud, And understanding put forth her voice?

8:2  Upon the top of the high places, By the wayside, In the cross-ways, She taketh her station.

8:3  By the side of the gates, In the entrance of the city, In the approaches to the doors, she crieth aloud.

8:4  "To you, O men! do I call, And my voice is to the sons of men!

8:5  O ye simple ones! learn wisdom, And ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart!

8:6  Hear, for I speak excellent things, And my lips utter that which is right.

8:7  For my mouth speaketh truth, And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

8:8  All the words of my mouth are in uprightness; There is nothing crooked or deceitful in them;

8:9  They are all plain to the man of understanding, And right to those who find knowledge.

8:10  Receive my instruction, and not silver. And knowledge rather than choice gold!

8:11  For wisdom is better than pearls, And no precious things are to be compared with her.

8:12  "I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, And find out the knowledge of sagacious counsels.

8:13  The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, And the deceitful mouth, do I hate.

8:14  Counsel is mine, and sound reason; I am understanding; I have strength.

8:15  By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.

8:16  By me princes rule, And nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

8:17  I love them that love me, And they who seek me early shall find me.

8:18  Riches and honor are with me; Yea, durable riches and prosperity.

8:19  My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold. And my revenue than choice silver.

8:20  I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of equity.

8:21  I cause those who love me to possess substance; Yea, I fill their treasuries.

8:22  "The LORD created me, the firstling of his course, Before his works, of old;

8:23  I was anointed from everlasting, From the beginning, even before the earth was made.

8:24  When as yet there were no deeps, I was brought forth. When there were no springs, abounding with water.

8:25  Before the mountains were settled, Yea, before the hills, I was brought forth;

8:26  Ere yet he had made the land and the wastes, And the first of the clods of the earth.

8:27  When he framed the heavens, I was there; When he drew a circle upon the face of the deep;

8:28  When he made firm the sky above, And the fountains of the deep rushed forth;

8:29  When he gave to the sea its bounds, that the waters should not pass their border; When he marked out the foundations of the earth,—

8:30  Then was I by him as a master-builder; I was his delight day by day, Exulting before him at all times;

8:31  Exulting in the habitable part of his earth, And my delight was with the sons of men.

8:32  "Now, therefore, ye children, hearken to me! For happy are they who keep my ways!

8:33  Hear instruction, and be wise! Yea, reject it not!

8:34  Happy the man who hearkeneth to me, Who watcheth day by day at my gates, Who waiteth at the posts of my doors;

8:35  For he that findeth me findeth life, And obtaineth favor from the LORD;

8:36  But he who misseth me doeth violence to himself; All they who hate me love death."