Proverbs 8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Proverbs 8The Gifts of Wisdom

1 of his work,

the first of his acts of long ago.

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or the world’s first bits of soil.

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and I was daily his delight,

playing before him always,

31 Ps 16.3 playing in his inhabited world

and delighting in the human race.

32 Ps 119.1, 2; Prov 5.7; Lk 11.28 “And now, my children, listen to me:

happy are those who keep my ways.

33Hear instruction and be wise,

and do not neglect it.

34 Prov 3.13, 18 Happy is the one who listens to me,

watching daily at my gates,

waiting beside my doors.

35 Prov 4.22; 12.2 For whoever finds me finds life

and obtains favor from the Lord,

36 Prov 20.2 but those who miss me injure themselves;

all who hate me love death.”