Idols , Idol worship is not true worship
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Chapter 1
1:20 Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
1:21 At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
1:22 O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
1:23 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
1:24 Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
1:25 You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
1:26 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
1:27 When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
1:28 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:
1:29 Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,
1:30 Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
1:31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
1:32 The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
1:33 But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.
1:20 Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
1:21 At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
1:22 O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
1:23 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
1:24 Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
1:25 You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
1:26 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
1:27 When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
1:28 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:
1:29 Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,
1:30 Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
1:31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
1:32 The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
1:33 But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.
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Chapter 8
8:1 Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice ?
8:2 Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths.
8:3 Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying:
8:4 O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.
8:5 O little ones, understand subtilty, and ye unwise, take notice.
8:6 Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.
8:7 My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.
8:8 All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse in them.
8:9 They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.
8:10 Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold.
8:11 For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to
8:12 I wisdom dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts.
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 be 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
8:1 Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice ?
8:2 Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths.
8:3 Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying:
8:4 O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.
8:5 O little ones, understand subtilty, and ye unwise, take notice.
8:6 Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.
8:7 My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.
8:8 All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse in them.
8:9 They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.
8:10 Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold.
8:11 For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to
8:12 I wisdom dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts.
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 be 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