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  • 1. Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding give forth her voice?
  • 2. On the top of high places by the way, at the cross-paths she taketh her stand.
  • 3. Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud.
  • 4. Unto you, men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man:
  • 5. O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense.
  • 6. Hear, for I will speak excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
  • 7. For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
  • 8. All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing tortuous or perverse in them.
  • 9. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
  • 10. Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold:
  • 11. for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not equal to it.
  • 12. I wisdom dwell [with] prudence, and find the knowledge [which cometh] of reflection.
  • 13. The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.
  • 14. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength.
  • 15. By me kings reign, and rulers make just decrees;
  • 16. by me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth.
  • 17. I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.
  • 18. Riches and honour are with me; durable wealth and righteousness.
  • 19. My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
  • 20. I walk in the path of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
  • 21. that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasuries.
  • 22. Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
  • 23. I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.
  • 24. When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
  • 25. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;
  • 26. while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
  • 27. When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he ordained the circle upon the face of the deep;
  • 28. when he established the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong;
  • 29. when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
  • 30. then I was by him [his] nursling, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
  • 31. rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights [were] with the sons of men.
  • 32. And now, sons, hearken unto me, and blessed are they that keep my ways:
  • 33. hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
  • 34. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
  • 35. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of Jehovah;
  • 36. but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.