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CHAP. XXIIII.
1 A praise of wisedome proceeding forth of the mouth of God.
6 Of her works and place where she resteth. 20 She is giuen to
the children of God.
1 Wisedome shall praise her selfe, [and be honoured
in God,] and reioyce in the middes
of her people.
2 In the congregation of the most High shall
she open her mouth, and triumph before his power.
3 [In the middes of her people shall she be exalted,
and wondred at in the holy assembly.
4 In the multitude of the chosen shee shall bee
commended, and among such as be blessed, she shal
be praysed, and shall say,]
5 I am come out of the mouth of the most
High, [first borne before all creatures.
6 I caused the light that fayleth not, to arise in
the heauen,] and couered the earth as a cloude.
7 My dwelling is aboue in the height, and my
throne is in the pillar of the cloude.
8 I alone haue gone round about the compasse
of heauen, and haue walked in the bottom of the
depth.
9 I possessed the waues of the sea, and all the
earth, and all people, and nation, [and with my
power haue I troden downe the heartes of al, both
high and low.]
10 In all these things I sought rest, and a dwelling
in some inheritance.
11 So the creator of all thinges gaue me a commandement,
and he that made me, appointed me a
tabernacle, and said, Let thy dwelling be in Iacob,
and take thine inheritance in Israel, and roote thy
selfe among my chosen.
12 noteHe created me from the beginning, & before
the world, and I shall neuer faile: note In the holy
habitation haue I serued before him, and so was
I stablished in Sion.
13 noteIn the welbeloued citie gaue he me rest, &
in Ierusalem was my power.
14 I tooke roote in an honourable people, euen
in the portion of the Lordes inheritance.
15 I am set vp on hie like a cedar in Libanus, &
as a cypres tree vpon the mountaines of Hermon.
16 I am exalted like a palme tree note about the
bankes, and as a rose plant in Iericho, as a faire
-- --
oliue tree in a pleasant fielde, and am exalted as a
plane tree by the water.
17 I smelled as the cinnamum, and as a bag of
spices: I gaue a sweete odour as the best mirrhe, as
galbanum, and onix, and sweete storax, & perfume
of incense in an house.
18 As the terebinth, haue I stretched out my
branches, and my branches are the branches of honor
and grace.
19 noteAs the vine haue I brought forth [fruite]
of sweete sauour, and my flowers are the fruite of
honour and riches.
20 I am the mother of beautifull loue, and of
feare, and of knowledge, and of holy hope: I giue
eternall things to all my children to whome God
hath commanded.
21 [In me is all grace of life and trueth: in mee
is all hope of life and vertue.]
22 Come vnto me al ye that be desirous of me,
and fill your selues with my fruites.
23 noteFor the remembrance of mee is, sweeter
then honie, and mine inheritance [sweeter] then
the hony combe: [the rem&ebar;brance of me endureth
for euermore.]
24 They that eate me, shall haue the more hunger,
and they that drinke me, shall thirst the more.
25 Who so hearkeneth vnto me, shal not come
to confusion, and they that worke by me, shall not
offende: [they that make me to be knowen, shall
haue euerlasting life.]
26 All these thinges are the booke [of life,] and
the couenant of the most high God, [& the knowledge
of the trueth,] note and the Law that Moyses [in
the precepts of righteousnes] commaunded for an
heritage vnto the house of Iacob, [and the promises
pertayning vnto Israel.]
27 Be not wearie to behaue your selues valiantly
with the Lord, that hee may also confirme you:
cleaue vnto him: for the Lord almightie is but one
God, and besides him there is none other Sauiour.
28 [Out of Dauid his seruant hee ordeyned to
raise vp a most mightie King that should sitte in the
throne of honour for euermore.]
29 Hee filleth all things with his wisedome, as
note Physon, and as Tygris, in the time of the newe
fruites.
30 Hee maketh the vnderstanding to abounde
like Euphrates, and as note Iorden, in the time of the
haruest.
31 He maketh the doctrine of knowledge to
appeare as the light, and ouerfloweth as Geon in
the time of the vintage.
32 The first man hath not knowen her perfectly:
no more shall the last seeke her out.
33 For her considerations are more aboundant
then the sea, and her counsell is profounder then
the great deepe.
34 I wisdome [haue cast out floodes:] I am as an
arme of the riuer: I runne into Paradise as a water
conduite.
35 I sayd, I will water my faire garden, and will
water my pleasant ground: and loe, my ditch became
a flood, and my flood became a sea.
36 For I make doctrine to shine as the light of
the morning, and I lighten it for euer.
37 [I wil pearce thorow all the lower partes of
the earth: I will looke vpon all such as be a sleepe,
and lighten all them that trust in the Lord.]
38 I will yet powre out doctrine, as prophesie,
and leaue it vnto all ages for euer.
39 noteBeholde that I haue not laboured for my
selfe onely, but for all them that seeke wisdome.
Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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