Proverbs 8:2-26

²She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths.

³She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,

⁴O men, I call vnto you, and vtter my voyce to the children of men.

⁵O ye foolish men, vnderstand wisedome, and ye, O fooles, be wise in heart.

⁶Giue eare, for I will speake of excellent things, and the opening of my lippes, shall teache things that be right.

⁷For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.

⁸All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.

⁹They are all plaine to him that will vnderstande, and streight to them that woulde finde knowledge.

¹⁰Receiue mine instruction, and not siluer, and knowledge rather then fine golde.

¹¹For wisdome is better then precious stones: and all pleasures are not to be compared vnto her.

¹²I wisdome dwell with prudence, and I find foorth knowledge and counsels.

¹³The feare of the Lord is to hate euill as pride, and arrogancie, and the euill way: and a mouth that speaketh lewde things, I doe hate.

¹⁴I haue counsell and wisedome: I am vnderstanding, and I haue strength.

¹⁵By me, Kings reigne, and princes decree iustice.

¹⁶By me princes rule and the nobles, and all the iudges of the earth.

¹⁷I loue them that loue me: and they that seeke me earely, shall finde me.

¹⁸Riches and honour are with me: euen durable riches and righteousnesse.

¹⁹My fruite is better then golde, euen then fine golde, and my reuenues better then fine siluer.

²⁰I cause to walke in the way of righteousnes, and in the middes of the paths of iudgement,

²¹That I may cause them that loue me, to inherite substance, and I will fill their treasures.

²²The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: I was before his workes of olde.

²³I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning and before the earth.

²⁴When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.

²⁵Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.

²⁶He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.