8:13. The fear of the Lord hateth evil; I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue. 8:14. Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine. 8:15. By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things. 8:16. By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice. 8:17. I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me. 8:18. With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice. 8:19. For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver. 8:20. I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment, 8:21. That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures. 8:22. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. 8:23. I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made. 8:24. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out. 8:25. The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been established: before the hills, I was brought forth: 8:26. He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world. 8:27. When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law, and compass, he enclosed the depths: 8:28. When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters: 8:29. 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; 8:30. I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times; 8:31. Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men. 8:32. Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways. 8:33. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 8:34. Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. 8:35. He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord. 8:36. But he that shall sin against me shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death. Proverbs Chapter 9 Wisdom invites all to her feast. Folly calls another way. 9:1. Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars. 9:2. She hath slain her victims, mingled her wine, and set forth her table. 9:3. She hath sent her maids to invite to the tower, and to the walls of the city: 9:4. Whosoever is a little one, let him come to me. And to the unwise she said: 9:5. Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you. 9:6. Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence. 9:7. He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself; and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot. 9:8. Rebuke not a scorner, lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.