Wisdom & Truth Verses

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

When {there were} no depths, I was brought forth; when {there were} no fountains abounding with water.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

When he prepared the heavens, I {was} there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: {a compass: or, a circle}

She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. {her beasts: Heb. her killing}

She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine {which} I have mingled.

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked {man getteth} himself a blot.

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

But he knoweth not that the dead {are} there; {and that} her guests {are} in the depths of hell.

He becometh poor that dealeth {with} a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.