Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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1 Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?
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Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice?
2 Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths,
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On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand;
3 Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying:
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beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out:
4 O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.
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"To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live.
5 O little ones understand subtlety, and ye unwise, take notice.
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O simple ones, learn prudence; acquire intelligence, you who lack it.
6 Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.
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Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right;
7 My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.
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for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8 All my words are just, there is nothing wicked, nor perverse in them.
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All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
9 They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.
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They are all straight to one who understands and right to those who find knowledge.
10 Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold.
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Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold;
11 For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it.
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for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
12 I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts.
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I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I attain knowledge and discretion.
13 The fear of the Lord hateth evil; I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.
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The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
14 Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.
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I have good advice and sound wisdom; I have insight, I have strength.
15 By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.
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By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just;
16 By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.
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by me rulers rule, and nobles, all who govern rightly.
17 I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me.
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I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
18 With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.
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Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and prosperity.
19 For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.
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My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.
20 I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,
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I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
21 That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures.
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endowing with wealth those who love me, and filling their treasuries.
22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.
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The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago.
23 I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made.
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Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
24 The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out.
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When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
25 The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been established: before the hills, I was brought forth:
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Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth—
26 He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.
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when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the world's first bits of soil.
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law, and compass, he enclosed the depths:
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When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
28 When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:
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when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,
29 When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth;
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when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
30 I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;
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then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,
31 Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.
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rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.
32 Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways.
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"And now, my children, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.
33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
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Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.
34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.
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Happy is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.
35 He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.
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For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord;
36 But he that shall sin against me shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
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but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death."
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