{"id":408,"date":"2022-08-01T13:49:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T17:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/proverbs-8"},"modified":"2022-08-01T13:49:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T17:49:19","slug":"proverbs-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2022\/08\/01\/proverbs-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Proverb 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro 8:1  Does not wisdom call? And does not understanding speak?<br \/>\nPro 8:2  She stands in the top of high places, by the wayside, in the houses of the paths,<br \/>\nPro 8:3  beside the gates; at the mouth of the city, at the doors, she cries.<br \/>\nPro 8:4  I call to you, O men, and my voice is to the sons of men.<br \/>\nPro 8:5  Understand wisdom, simple ones; and fools, be of an understanding heart.<br \/>\nPro 8:6  Hear, for I will speak of excellent things, and from the opening of my lips shall be right things.<br \/>\nPro 8:7  For my mouth shall speak of truth, and wickedness is hateful to my lips.<br \/>\nPro 8:8  All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; nothing crooked or perverse is in them;<br \/>\nPro 8:9  they are all plain to the understanding one; and right to those who find knowledge.<br \/>\nPro 8:10  Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge, rather than choice gold.<br \/>\nPro 8:11  For wisdom is better than jewels, and all delights cannot be compared to it.<br \/>\nPro 8:12  I, wisdom, dwell with sense, and I find knowledge of discretions.<br \/>\nPro 8:13  The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; I hate pride and loftiness, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth.<br \/>\nPro 8:14  Counsel and sound wisdom are mine; I am understanding; I have strength.<br \/>\nPro 8:15  By me kings reign, and leaders decree righteousness.<br \/>\nPro 8:16  Rulers and nobles rule by me, and all the judges of the earth.<br \/>\nPro 8:17  I love those who love me, and those who seek me early find me.<br \/>\nPro 8:18  Riches and honor are with me; enduring wealth and righteousness.<br \/>\nPro 8:19  My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my increase is better than the best silver.<br \/>\nPro 8:20  I walk in the path of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice;<br \/>\nPro 8:21  to cause those who love me to inherit wealth, and I will fill up their treasuries.<br \/>\nPro 8:22  Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of His way, from then, before His works.<br \/>\nPro 8:23  I was set up from everlasting, from that which was before the earth.<br \/>\nPro 8:24  When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no springs heavy with water.<br \/>\nPro 8:25  Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth;<br \/>\nPro 8:26  before He had made the earth and the fields, or the highest part of the dust of the world.<br \/>\nPro 8:27  When He prepared the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle on the face of the deep,<br \/>\nPro 8:28  when He formed the clouds above, when He made the strong fountains of the deep,<br \/>\nPro 8:29  when He gave to the sea its limit, that the waters should not pass beyond His command; when He decreed the foundations of the earth,<br \/>\nPro 8:30  then I was at His side, like a master workman; and I was His delights day by day, rejoicing before Him at every time;<br \/>\nPro 8:31  rejoicing in the world, His earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.<br \/>\nPro 8:32  And now listen to me, O sons, for blessed are those who keep my ways.<br \/>\nPro 8:33  Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.<br \/>\nPro 8:34  Blessed is the man listening to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.<br \/>\nPro 8:35  For whoever finds me finds life, and he shall obtain favor from Jehovah.<br \/>\nPro 8:36  But he who sins against me does violence to his own soul; all who hate me love death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro 8:1 Does not wisdom call? And does not understanding speak? Pro 8:2 She stands in the top of high places, by the wayside, in the houses of the paths, Pro 8:3 beside the gates; at the mouth of the city, at the doors, she cries. 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