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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, keep my words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="content">And lay up my commandments with thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Keep my commandments, and live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="content">And my law as the apple of thine eye.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Bind them upon thy fingers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="content">Write them upon the table of thine heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Say unto wisdom, Thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> my sister;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="content">And call understanding </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thy</span></span><span class="content"> kinswoman:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">That they may keep thee from the strange woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="content">From the stranger </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> flattereth with her words.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For at the window of my house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="content">I looked through my casement,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And beheld among the simple ones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">I discerned among the youths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">A young man void of understanding,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Passing through the street near her corner;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="content">And he went the way to her house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In the twilight, in the evening,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="content">In the black and dark night:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And, behold, there met him a woman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">With</span></span><span class="content"> the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">(She </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> loud and stubborn;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="content">Her feet abide not in her house:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is she</span></span><span class="content"> without, now in the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="content">And lieth in wait at every corner.)</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So she caught him, and kissed him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> with an impudent face said unto him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">I have</span></span><span class="content"> peace offerings with me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="content">This day have I payed my vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore came I forth to meet thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="content">Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="content">With carved </span><span class="add"><span class="content">works</span></span><span class="content">, with fine linen of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I have perfumed my bed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="content">With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="content">Let us solace ourselves with loves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For the goodman </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not at home,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="content">He is gone a long journey:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He hath taken a bag of money with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> will come home at the day appointed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">With her much fair speech she caused him to yield,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="content">With the flattering of her lips she forced him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He goeth after her straightway,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">As an ox goeth to the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Till a dart strike through his liver;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">As a bird hasteth to the snare,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">And knoweth not that it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> for his life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="content">And attend to the words of my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Let not thine heart decline to her ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="content">Go not astray in her paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For she hath cast down many wounded:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="content">Yea, many strong </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content"> have been slain by her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Her house </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the way to hell,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.7.27"><span class="content">Going down to the chambers of death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Wisdom and Folly</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Doth not wisdom cry?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.8.1"><span class="content">And understanding put forth her voice?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">She standeth in the top of high places, by the way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.8.2"><span class="content">In the places of the paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.8.3"><span class="content">At the coming in at the doors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Unto you, O men, I call;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.8.4"><span class="content">And my voice </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> to the sons of man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">O ye simple, understand wisdom:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.8.5"><span class="content">And, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Hear; for I will speak of excellent things;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.8.6"><span class="content">And the opening of my lips </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> right things.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For my mouth shall speak truth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.8.7"><span class="content">And wickedness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> an abomination to my lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">All the words of my mouth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> in righteousness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.8.8"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">There is</span></span><span class="content"> nothing froward or perverse in them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> all plain to him that understandeth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.8.9"><span class="content">And right to them that find knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Receive my instruction, and not silver;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.8.10"><span class="content">And knowledge rather than choice gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For wisdom </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> better than rubies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.8.11"><span class="content">And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I wisdom dwell with prudence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.8.12"><span class="content">And find out knowledge of witty inventions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> to hate evil:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.8.13"><span class="content">Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.8.13"><span class="content">And the froward mouth, do I hate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Counsel </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> mine, and sound wisdom:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.8.14"><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> understanding; I have strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">By me kings reign,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.8.15"><span class="content">And princes decree justice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">By me princes rule,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.8.16"><span class="content">And nobles, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span><span class="content"> all the judges of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I love them that love me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.8.17"><span class="content">And those that seek me early shall find me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Riches and honour </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> with me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.8.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yea</span></span><span class="content">, durable riches and righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My fruit </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> better than gold, yea, than fine gold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.8.19"><span class="content">And my revenue than choice silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I lead in the way of righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.8.20"><span class="content">In the midst of the paths of judgment:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.8.21"><span class="content">And I will fill their treasures.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> possessed me in the beginning of his way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.8.22"><span class="content">Before his works of old.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.8.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.8.23"><span class="content">Or ever the earth was.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.8.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there were</span></span><span class="content"> no depths, I was brought forth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.8.24"><span class="content">When </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there were</span></span><span class="content"> no fountains abounding with water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.8.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Before the mountains were settled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.8.25"><span class="content">Before the hills was I brought forth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.8.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.8.26"><span class="content">Nor the highest part of the dust of the world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.8.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When he prepared the heavens, I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> there:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.8.27"><span class="content">When he set a compass upon the face of the depth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When he established the clouds above:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.8.28"><span class="content">When he strengthened the fountains of the deep:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.8.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When he gave to the sea his decree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.8.29"><span class="content">That the waters should not pass his commandment:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.8.29"><span class="content">When he appointed the foundations of the earth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.8.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then I was by him, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> one brought up </span><span class="add"><span class="content">with him:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.8.30"><span class="content">And I was daily </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> delight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.8.30"><span class="content">Rejoicing always before him;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.8.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.8.31"><span class="content">And my delights </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> with the sons of men.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.8.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.8.32"><span class="content">For blessed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are they that</span></span><span class="content"> keep my ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.8.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Hear instruction, and be wise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.8.33"><span class="content">And refuse it not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.8.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Blessed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the man that heareth me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.8.34"><span class="content">Watching daily at my gates,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.8.34"><span class="content">Waiting at the posts of my doors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.8.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">For whoso findeth me findeth life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.8.35"><span class="content">And shall obtain favour of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.8.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PRO.8.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PRO.8.36"><span class="content">All they that hate me love death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Wisdom hath builded her house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.9.1"><span class="content">She hath hewn out her seven pillars:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.9.2"><span class="content">She hath also furnished her table.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.9.3"><span class="content">Upon the highest places of the city,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Whoso </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> simple, let him turn in hither:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.9.4"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">As for</span></span><span class="content"> him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Come, eat of my bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.9.5"><span class="content">And drink of the wine </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> I have mingled.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Forsake the foolish, and live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.9.6"><span class="content">And go in the way of understanding.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.9.7"><span class="content">And he that rebuketh a wicked </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man getteth</span></span><span class="content"> himself a blot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.9.8"><span class="content">Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Give </span><span class="add"><span class="content">instruction</span></span><span class="content"> to a wise </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content">, and he will be yet wiser:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.9.9"><span class="content">Teach a just </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content">, and he will increase in learning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the beginning of wisdom:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.9.10"><span class="content">And the knowledge of the holy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For by me thy days shall be multiplied,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.9.11"><span class="content">And the years of thy life shall be increased.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.9.12"><span class="content">But </span><span class="add"><span class="content">if</span></span><span class="content"> thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A foolish woman </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> clamorous:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.9.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">She is</span></span><span class="content"> simple, and knoweth nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For she sitteth at the door of her house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.9.14"><span class="content">On a seat in the high places of the city,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">To call passengers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.9.15"><span class="content">Who go right on their ways:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whoso </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> simple, let him turn in hither:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.9.16"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as for</span></span><span class="content"> him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Stolen waters are sweet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.9.17"><span class="content">And bread </span><span class="add"><span class="content">eaten</span></span><span class="content"> in secret is pleasant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But he knoweth not that the dead </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.9.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And that</span></span><span class="content"> her guests </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> in the depths of hell.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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