Chapter — Douay-Rheims

Proverbs 8

1.

Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?

2.

Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths,

3.

Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying:

4.

O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.

6.

Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.

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7.

My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.

9.

They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.

11.

For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it.

12.

I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts.

13.

The fear of the Lord hateth evil; I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.

14.

Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.

15.

By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.

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16.

By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.

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17.

I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me.

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19.

For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.

21.

That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures.

24.

The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out.

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25.

The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been established: before the hills, I was brought forth:

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26.

He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.

28.

When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:

29.

When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth;

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30.

I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;

32.

Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways.

33.

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

34.

Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.

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