1. All wisdom cometh from the Lord, and is with him for ever.

2. Who can number the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days of eternity?

3. Who can find out the height of heaven, and the breadth of the earth, and the deep, and wisdom?

4. Wisdom hath been created before all things, and the understanding of prudence from everlasting.

5. The word of God most high is the fountain of wisdom; and her ways are everlasting commandments.

6. To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed? or who hath known her wise counsels?

7. Unto whom hath the knowledge of wisdom been made manifest? and who hath understood her great experience?

8. There is one wise and greatly to be feared, the Lord sitting upon his throne.

9. He created her, and saw her, and numbered her, and poured her out upon all his works.

10. She is with all flesh according to his gift, and he hath given her to them that love him.

11. The fear of the Lord is honour, and glory, and gladness, and a crown of rejoicing.

12. The fear of the Lord maketh a merry heart, and giveth joy, and gladness, and a long life.

13. Whoso feareth the Lord, it shall go well with him at the last, and he shall find favour in the day of his death.

14. To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and it was created with the faithful in the womb.

15. She hath built an everlasting foundation with men, and she shall continue with their seed.

16. To fear the Lord is fulness of wisdom, and filleth men with her fruits.

17. She filleth all their house with things desirable, and the garners with her increase.

18. The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom, making peace and perfect health to flourish; both which are the gifts of God: and it enlargeth their rejoicing that love him.

19. Wisdom raineth down skill and knowledge of understanding standing, and exalteth them to honour that hold her fast.

20. The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and the branches thereof are long life.

21. The fear of the Lord driveth away sins: and where it is present, it turneth away wrath.

22. A furious man cannot be justified; for the sway of his fury shall be his destruction.

23. A patient man will tear for a time, and afterward joy shall spring up unto him.

24. He will hide his words for a time, and the lips of many shall declare his wisdom.

25. The parables of knowledge are in the treasures of wisdom: but godliness is an abomination to a sinner.

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About this reader

What is Scripture?

Scripture is a browser-based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning multiple religious and literary traditions. It provides chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-text search across all works, word concordance with frequency analysis, verse-linked notes, text-to-speech, and deep linking to any chapter or verse.

Traditions Represented

The collection spans Abrahamic, East Asian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions. It includes King James biblical text and Apocrypha, Pickthall's Quran, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Legge's Four Books, Tao Te Ching, and Book of Poetry, Chamberlain's Kojiki, West's Bundahishn, Kern's Lotus Sutra, Haug and West's Arda Viraf, Crawford's Kalevala, and Bellows' Poetic Edda.

The committed manifests and chapter files currently describe 121 books, 2,724 chapters, and 63,141 verse records. In poetry and prose works, a verse record can represent a line or paragraph rather than a canonically numbered scriptural verse.

Licensing

The application source is AGPL-3.0. Generated text downloads and their structured arrangement are CC BY-SA 4.0; the underlying historic source texts are treated as public-domain inputs. The corpus metadata therefore describes the distributed arrangement with its CC BY-SA license rather than the Public Domain Mark.

Concordance and Related Passages

The concordance is an exact-word occurrence index with linked records grouped by work. Related Passages is separate: a TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) cosine-similarity index compares chapter vocabulary after stop-word removal and stores up to five cross-book matches above its threshold. It is a lexical discovery aid, not a claim of historical or theological equivalence.

Deep Linking

Every chapter and verse has a permanent URL. Chapter links follow the pattern /scripture/{work}/{book}-{chapter} (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1 for Genesis 1). Verse links append the verse number (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1:26 for Genesis 1:26). These URLs can be shared, bookmarked, or cited directly.

Accessibility

Scripture supports keyboard navigation throughout: Tab moves between controls, Enter activates verse actions, and arrow keys navigate chapters. The reading pane has a skip-to-content link. All overlays (search, concordance) are focus-trapped ARIA dialogs. Dynamic content regions use aria-live for screen reader announcements. Light and dark themes are available through the theme toggle. Verse numbers are visible to assistive technology. No flashing content or motion hazards.

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