Proverbs 8 — WBMS
8Verse 1Whether wisdom crieth not oft; and prudence giveth her voice?Verse 2In most sovereign and high tops, above the way, in the midst of paths,Verse 3and it standeth beside the gates of the city, in those enclosings, and speaketh, and saith,Verse 4A! ye men, I cry oft to you; and my voice is to the sons of men.Verse 5Little children, that is, little of wit, understand ye wisdom; and ye unwise men, perceiveth in heart.Verse 6Hear ye, for I shall speak of great things; and my lips shall be opened, to preach rightful [or even] things.Verse 7My throat shall bethink truth; and my lips shall curse a wicked man.Verse 8My words be just; no shrewd thing, neither wayward is in those.Verse 9They be rightful [or right] to them that understand; and they be even to them that find knowing.Verse 10Take ye my chastising [or my discipline], and not money; choose ye teaching, more than treasure.Verse 11For wisdom is better than all riches most precious; and all desirable thing may not be comparisoned thereto.Verse 12I, wisdom, dwell in counsel; and I am among learned thoughts.Verse 13The dread of the Lord hateth evil; I curse boast, and pride, and a shrewd way, and a double-tongued mouth.Verse 14Counsel is mine, and equity; prudence is mine, and strength.Verse 15Kings reign by me; and makers of laws deem just things by me.Verse 16Princes command by me; and mighty men deem rightfulness [or rightwiseness]by me.Verse 17I love them that love me; and they that wake early to me, shall find me.Verse 18With me be riches, and glory; sovereign riches, and rightfulness [or rightwiseness].Verse 19My fruit is better than gold, and precious stone; and my seeds [or my burgeonings]be better than chosen silver.Verse 20I go in the ways of rightfulness [or rightwiseness], in the midst of the paths of doom;Verse 21that I make rich them that love me, and that I fill their treasures or their treasuries.Verse 22The Lord wielded me in the beginning of his ways; before that he made anything, at the beginning.Verse 23From without beginning I was ordained; and from eld [or old] times, before that the earth was made.Verse 24[The] Depths of waters were not yet; and I was conceived then. The wells of waters had not broken out yet,Verse 25and hills stood not altogether yet by firm heaviness; before little hills I was born.Verse 26Yet he had not made [the] earth; and floods, and the earths of the world.Verse 27When he made ready heavens, I was present; when he compassed [or enclosed] the depths of waters by certain law and compass.Verse 28When he made steadfast the air above; and weighed the wells of waters.Verse 29When 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;Verse 30I was making all things with him. And I delighted by all days, and played before him in all time,Verse 31and I played in the world; and my delights be to be with the sons of men.Verse 32Now, therefore, sons, hear ye me; blessed be they that keep my ways.Verse 33Hear ye teaching, and be ye wise men; and do not ye cast it away.Verse 34Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth at my gates all day; and keepeth [or waiteth] at the posts of my door[s].Verse 35He that findeth me, shall find life; and he shall draw health of the Lord.Verse 36But he that sinneth against me shall hurt his soul; all that hate me, love death.