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PROVERBS
9.3
- 11For wisdom is better than rubies,
- And all things desirable are not to be compared unto her.
- 12I wisdom dwell with prudence,
- And find out knowledge of devices.
- 13The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
- Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way,
- And the froward mouth, do I hate.
- 14Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom;
- I am understanding, power is mine.
- 15By me kings reign,
- And princes decree justice.
- 16By me princes rule, And nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
- 17I love them that love me,
- And those that seek me earnestly shall find me.
- 18Riches and honour are with me;
- Yea, enduring riches and righteousness.
- 19My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold;
- And my produce than choice silver.
- 20I walk in the way of righteousness,
- In the midst of the paths of justice;
- 21That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance,
- And that I may fill their treasuries.
- 22The Lord made me as the beginning of His way,
- The first of His works of old.
- 23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
- Or ever the earth was.
- 24When there were no depths, I was brought forth;
- When there were no fountains abounding with water.
- 25Before the mountains were settled,
- Before the hills was I brought forth;
- 26While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields,
- Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
- 27When He established the heavens, I was there;
- When He set a circle upon the face of the deep,
- 28When He made firm the skies above,
- When the fountains of the deep showed their might,
- 29When He gave to the sea His decree,
- That the waters should not transgress His commandment,
- When He appointed the foundations of the earth;
- 30Then I was by Him, as a nursling;
- And I was daily all delight,
- Playing always before Him,
- 31Playing in His habitable earth,
- And my delights are with the sons of men.
- 32Now therefore, ye children, hearken unto me;
- For happy are they that keep my ways.
- 33Hear instruction, and be wise,
- And refuse it not.
- 34Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me,
- Watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
- 35For whoso findeth me findeth life,
- And obtaineth favour of the Lord.
- 36But he that misseth me wrongeth his own soul;
- All they that hate me love death.'
- 9 Wisdom hath builded her house,
- She hath hewn out her seven pillars;
- 2She hath prepared her meat, she hath mingled her wine;
- She hath also furnished her table.
- 3She hath sent forth her maidens, she calleth,
- Upon the highest places of the city:
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