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Proverbs 8 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:1 - Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:2 - At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:3 - Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:4 - I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:5 - Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:6 - Give ear, for my words are true, and my lips are open to give out what is upright.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:7 - For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:8 - All the words of my mouth are righteousness; there is nothing false or twisted in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:9 - They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:10 - Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:11 - For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:12 - I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:13 - The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:14 - Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:15 - Through me kings have their power, and rulers give right decisions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:16 - Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:17 - Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:18 - Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:19 - My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:20 - I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:21 - So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:22 - The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:23 - From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:24 - When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:25 - Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:26 - When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:27 - When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:28 - When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:29 - When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:30 - Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:31 - Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:32 - Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:33 - Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:34

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:34 - Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:35 - For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:36

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:36 - But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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