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 teache