Proverbs 8

1 Whether wisdom crieth not oft; and prudence giveth her voice?⋮

2 In most sovereign and high tops, above the way, in the midst of paths,⋮

3 and it standeth beside the gates of the city, in those enclosings, and speaketh, and saith,⋮

4 A! ye men, I cry oft to you; and my voice is to the sons of men.⋮

5 Little children, that is, little of wit, understand ye wisdom; and ye unwise men, perceiveth in heart.⋮

6 Hear ye, for I shall speak of great things; and my lips shall be opened, to preach rightful or even things.⋮

7 My throat shall bethink truth; and my lips shall curse a wicked man.⋮

8 My words be just; no shrewd thing, neither wayward is in those.⋮

9 They be rightful or right to them that understand; and they be even to them that find knowing.⋮

10 Take ye my chastising or my discipline, and not money; choose ye teaching, more than treasure.⋮

11 For wisdom is better than all riches most precious; and all desirable thing may not be comparisoned thereto.⋮

12 I, wisdom, dwell in counsel; and I am among learned thoughts.⋮

13 The dread of the Lord hateth evil; I curse boast, and pride, and a shrewd way, and a double-tongued mouth.⋮

14 Counsel is mine, and equity; prudence is mine, and strength.⋮

15 Kings reign by me; and makers of laws deem just things by me.⋮

16 Princes command by me; and mighty men deem rightfulness or rightwiseness by me.⋮

17 I love them that love me; and they that wake early to me, shall find me.⋮

18 With me be riches, and glory; sovereign riches, and rightfulness or rightwiseness.⋮

19 My fruit is better than gold, and precious stone; and my seeds or my burgeonings be better than chosen silver.⋮

20 I go in the ways of rightfulness or rightwiseness, in the midst of the paths of doom;⋮

21 that I make rich them that love me, and that I fill their treasures or their treasuries.⋮

22 The Lord wielded me in the beginning of his ways; before that he made anything, at the beginning.⋮

23 From without beginning I was ordained; and from eld or old times, before that the earth was made.⋮

24 The Depths of waters were not yet; and I was conceived then. The wells of waters had not broken out yet,⋮

25 and hills stood not altogether yet by firm heaviness; before little hills I was born.⋮

26 Yet he had not made the earth; and floods, and the earths of the world.⋮

27 When he made ready heavens, I was present; when he compassed or enclosed the depths of waters by certain law and compass.⋮

28 When he made steadfast the air above; and weighed the wells of waters.⋮

29 When he compassed to the sea his mark; and setted or put law to waters, that they should not pass their coasts. When he weighed the foundaments of the earth;⋮

30 I was making all things with him. And I delighted by all days, and played before him in all time,⋮

31 and I played in the world; and my delights be to be with the sons of men.⋮

32 Now, therefore, sons, hear ye me; blessed be they that keep my ways.⋮

33 Hear ye teaching, and be ye wise men; and do not ye cast it away.⋮

34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth at my gates all day; and keepeth or waiteth at the posts of my doors.⋮

35 He that findeth me, shall find life; and he shall draw health of the Lord.⋮

36 But he that sinneth against me shall hurt his soul; all that hate me, love death.⋮