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Proverbs 8
Proverbs 8
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
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Does not wisdom cry out and understanding raise her voice?
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On top of the heights beside the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand.
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Beside the gates in front of the city, at the entrance of the doors she cries out:
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“To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the sons of men.
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O you simple ones, understand prudence; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.
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Listen, for I will speak excellent things, and the opening of my lips will disclose right things,
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for my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
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All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
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They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.
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Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold,
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for wisdom is better than jewels, and nothing you may desire can compare with her.
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“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I attain knowledge and discretion.
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The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and perverse speech do I hate.
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Counsel and sound wisdom are mine; I have understanding; I have power.
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By me kings reign, and rulers decree justice;
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by me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern rightly.
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I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.
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Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.
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My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.
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I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,
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endowing those who love me with wealth, that I may fill their treasuries.
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“The Lord created me at the beginning of His work, before His works of old.
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Ages ago I was established, at the beginning, before the earth existed.
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When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
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Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,
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before He had made the earth or the fields or the first dust of the world.
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When He established the heavens, I was there; when He drew a circle on the face of the deep,
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when He made firm the skies above, when He established the fountains of the deep,
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when He assigned to the sea its boundary, so that the waters might not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth,
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then I was beside Him, like a master workman, and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always in His presence,
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rejoicing in His inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men.
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“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways.
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Listen to instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.
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Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
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For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,
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but he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those who hate me love death.”
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