Proverbs 8 — GNV
8Verse 1Doth not wisedome crie? and vnderstanding vtter her voyce?Verse 2She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths.Verse 3She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,Verse 4O men, I call vnto you, and vtter my voyce to the children of men.Verse 5O ye foolish men, vnderstand wisedome, and ye, O fooles, be wise in heart.Verse 6Giue eare, for I will speake of excellent things, and the opening of my lippes, shall teache things that be right.Verse 7For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.Verse 8All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.Verse 9They are all plaine to him that will vnderstande, and streight to them that woulde finde knowledge.Verse 10Receiue mine instruction, and not siluer, and knowledge rather then fine golde.Verse 11For wisdome is better then precious stones: and all pleasures are not to be compared vnto her.Verse 12I wisdome dwell with prudence, and I find foorth knowledge and counsels.Verse 13The 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.Verse 14I haue counsell and wisedome: I am vnderstanding, and I haue strength.Verse 15By me, Kings reigne, and princes decree iustice.Verse 16By me princes rule and the nobles, and all the iudges of the earth.Verse 17I loue them that loue me: and they that seeke me earely, shall finde me.Verse 18Riches and honour are with me: euen durable riches and righteousnesse.Verse 19My fruite is better then golde, euen then fine golde, and my reuenues better then fine siluer.Verse 20I cause to walke in the way of righteousnes, and in the middes of the paths of iudgement,Verse 21That I may cause them that loue me, to inherite substance, and I will fill their treasures.Verse 22The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: I was before his workes of olde.Verse 23I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning and before the earth.Verse 24When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.Verse 25Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.Verse 26He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.Verse 27When hee prepared the heauens, I was there, when he set the compasse vpon the deepe.Verse 28When he established the cloudes aboue, when he confirmed the fountaines of the deepe,Verse 29When he gaue his decree to the Sea, that the waters shoulde not passe his commandement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth,Verse 30Then was I with him as a nourisher, and I was dayly his delight reioycing alway before him,Verse 31And tooke my solace in the compasse of his earth: and my delite is with the children of men.Verse 32Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.Verse 33Heare 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.Verse 34For he that findeth me, findeth life, and shall obteine fauour of the Lord.Verse 35But he that sinneth against me, hurteth his owne soule: and all that hate me, loue death.