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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> our Lord, how excellent </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy name in all the earth!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.8.1"><span class="content">Who hast set thy glory above the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.8.2"><span class="content">That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.8.3"><span class="content">The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">What is man, that thou art mindful of him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.8.4"><span class="content">And the son of man, that thou visitest him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.8.5"><span class="content">And hast crowned him with glory and honour.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.8.6"><span class="content">Thou hast put all </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content"> under his feet:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All sheep and oxen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.8.7"><span class="content">Yea, and the beasts of the field;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.8.8"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And whatsoever</span></span><span class="content"> passeth through the paths of the seas.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> our Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.8.9"><span class="content">How excellent </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy name in all the earth!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">38</div><div class="d"><span class="content">A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, rebuke me not in thy wrath:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="content">Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For thine arrows stick fast in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="content">And thy hand presseth me sore.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">There is</span></span><span class="content"> no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="content">Neither </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is there any</span></span><span class="content"> rest in my bones because of my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For mine iniquities are gone over mine head:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="content">As an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My wounds stink </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> are corrupt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="content">Because of my foolishness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="content">I go mourning all the day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For my loins are filled with a loathsome </span><span class="add"><span class="content">disease:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> no soundness in my flesh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am feeble and sore broken:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="content">I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Lord, all my desire </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> before thee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="content">And my groaning is not hid from thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My heart panteth, my strength faileth me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="content">As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="content">And my kinsmen stand afar off.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They also that seek after my life lay snares </span><span class="add"><span class="content">for me:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But I, as a deaf </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content">, heard not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">I was</span></span><span class="content"> as a dumb man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> openeth not his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Thus I was as a man that heareth not,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="content">And in whose mouth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> no reproofs.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For in thee, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, do I hope:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="content">Thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For I said, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Hear me</span></span><span class="content">, lest </span><span class="add"><span class="content">otherwise</span></span><span class="content"> they should rejoice over me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="content">When my foot slippeth, they magnify </span><span class="add"><span class="content">themselves</span></span><span class="content"> against me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> ready to halt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="content">And my sorrow </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> continually before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For I will declare mine iniquity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="content">I will be sorry for my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But mine enemies </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> lively, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> they are strong:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="content">And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They also that render evil for good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">Are mine adversaries; because I follow </span><span class="add"><span class="content">the thing that</span></span><span class="content"> good </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Forsake me not, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="content">O my God, be not far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Make haste to help me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.38.22"><span class="content">O Lord my salvation.</span></span></div><div 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         <div class="label">98</div><div class="d"><span class="content">A Psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.98.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O sing unto the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> a new song;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.98.1"><span class="content">For he hath done marvellous things:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.98.1"><span class="content">His right hand, and his holy arm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.98.1"><span class="content">Hath gotten him the victory.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.98.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.98.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath made known his salvation:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.98.2"><span class="content">His righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.98.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.98.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.98.3"><span class="content">All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.98.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.98.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Make a joyful noise unto the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, all the earth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.98.4"><span class="content">Make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.98.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.98.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Sing unto the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> with the harp;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.98.5"><span class="content">With the harp, and the voice of a psalm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.98.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.98.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">With trumpets and sound of cornet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.98.6"><span class="content">Make a joyful noise before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, the King.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.98.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.98.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.98.7"><span class="content">The world, and they that dwell therein.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.98.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.98.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let the floods clap </span><span class="add"><span class="content">their</span></span><span class="content"> hands: Let the hills be joyful together</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.98.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.98.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.98.9"><span class="content">For he cometh to judge the earth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.98.9"><span class="content">With righteousness shall he judge the world,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.98.9"><span class="content">And the people with equity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">128</div><div class="d"><span class="content">A Song of degrees.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.128.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Blessed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> every one that feareth the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.128.1"><span class="content">That walketh in his ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.128.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.128.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.128.2"><span class="content">Happy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shalt</span></span><span class="content"> thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content">, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it shall be</span></span><span class="content"> well with thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.128.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.128.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Thy wife </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: Thy children like olive plants round about thy table.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.128.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.128.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.128.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.128.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> shall bless thee out of Zion:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.128.5"><span class="content">And thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.128.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.128.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.128.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> peace upon Israel.</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 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