{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Proverbs",
 "chapter": 8,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "By me kings reign, and princes decree justice."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:"
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:"
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:"
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:"
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:"
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;"
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not."
  },
  {
   "v": 34,
   "t": "Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors."
  },
  {
   "v": 35,
   "t": "For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD."
  },
  {
   "v": 36,
   "t": "But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death."
  }
 ],
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