- 1. Doeth not wisedome crie? and vnderstanding vtter her voyce?
- 2. She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths.
- 3. She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,
- 4. O men, I call vnto you, and vtter my voyce to the children of men.
- 5. O ye foolish men, vnderstand wisedome, and ye, O fooles, be wise in heart.
- 6. Giue eare, for I will speake of excellent things, and the opening of my lippes, shall teache things that be right.
- 7. For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.
- 8. All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.
- 9. They are all plaine to him that will vnderstande, and streight to them that woulde finde knowledge.
- 10. Receiue mine instruction, and not siluer, and knowledge rather then fine golde.
- 11. For wisdome is better then precious stones: and all pleasures are not to be compared vnto her.
- 12. I wisdome dwell with prudence, and I find foorth knowledge and counsels.
- 13. The feare of the Lord is to hate euill as pride, and arrogancie, and the euill way: and a mouth that speaketh lewde things, I doe hate.
- 14. I haue counsell and wisedome: I am vnderstanding, and I haue strength.
- 15. By me, Kings reigne, and princes decree iustice.
- 16. By me princes rule and the nobles, and all the iudges of the earth.
- 17. I loue them that loue me: and they that seeke me earely, shall finde me.
- 18. Riches and honour are with me: euen durable riches and righteousnesse.
- 19. My fruite is better then golde, euen then fine golde, and my reuenues better then fine siluer.
- 20. I cause to walke in the way of righteousnes, and in the middes of the paths of iudgement,
- 21. That I may cause them that loue me, to inherite substance, and I will fill their treasures.
- 22. The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: I was before his workes of olde.
- 23. I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning and before the earth.
- 24. When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.
- 25. Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.
- 26. He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.
- 27. When hee prepared the heauens, I was there, when he set the compasse vpon the deepe.
- 28. When he established the cloudes aboue, when he confirmed the fountaines of the deepe,
- 29. When he gaue his decree to the Sea, that the waters shoulde not passe his commaundement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth,
- 30. Then was I with him as a nourisher, and I was dayly his delight reioycing alway before him,
- 31. And tooke my solace in the compasse of his earth: and my delite is with the children of men.
- 32. Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.
- 33. Heare instruction, and be ye wise, and refuse it not:
- 34. Blessed is the man that heareth mee, watching dayly at my gates, & giuing attendance at the postes of my doores.
- 35. For he that findeth me, findeth life, and shal obteine fauour of the Lord.
- 36. But he that sinneth against me, hurteth his owne soule: and all that hate me, loue death.
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