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Wisdom shall praise herself and shall glory in the midst of her people
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In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth and triumph before his power
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I came out of the mouth of the most High and covered the earth as a cloud
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I dwelt in high places and my throne is in a cloudy pillar
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I alone compassed the circuit of heaven and walked in the bottom of the deep
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In the waves of the sea and in all the earth and in every people and nation I got a possession
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With all these I sought rest and in whose inheritance shall I abide
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So the Creator of all things gave me a commandment and he that made me caused my tabernacle to rest and said Let thy dwelling be in Jacob and thine inheritance in Israel
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He created me from the beginning before the world and I shall never fail
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In the holy tabernacle I served before him and so was I established in Sion
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Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest and in Jerusalem was my power
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And I took root in an honourable people even in the portion of t Lord’s inheritance
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I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus and as a cypress tree upon the mountains of Hermon
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I was exalted like a palm tree in En-gaddi and as a rose plant in Jericho as a fair olive tree in a pleasant field and grew up as a plane tree by the water
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I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus and I yielded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh as galbanum and onyx and sweet storax and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle
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As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches and my branches are the branches of honour and grace
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As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches
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I am the mother of fair love and fear and knowledge and holy hope I therefore being eternal am given to all my children which are named of him
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Come unto me all ye that be desirous of me and fill yourselves with my fruits
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For my memorial is sweeter than honey and mine inheritance than the honeycomb
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They that eat me shall yet be hungry and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty
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He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded and they that work by me shall not do amiss
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All these things are the book of the covenant of the most high God even the law which Moses commanded for an heritage unto the congregations of Jacob
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Faint not to be strong in the Lord that he may confirm you cleave unto him for the Lord Almighty is God alone and beside him there is no other Saviour
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He filleth all things with his wisdom as Phison and as Tigris in the time of the new fruits
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He maketh the understanding to abound like Euphrates and as Jordan in the time of the harvest
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He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appear as the light and as Geon in the time of vintage
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The first man knew her not perfectly no more shall the last find her out
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For her thoughts are more than the sea and her counsels profounder than the great deep
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I also came out as a brook from a river and as a conduit into a garden
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I said I will water my best garden and will water abundantly my garden bed and lo my brook became a river and my river became a sea
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I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning and will send forth her light afar off
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I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy and leave it to all ages for ever
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Behold that I have not laboured for myself only but for all them that seek wisdom