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1 - Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

2 - On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.

3 - Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:

4 - “To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.

5 - You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.

6 - Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.

7 - For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

8 - All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

9 - They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.

10 - Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.

11 - For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.

12 - “I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

13 - The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

14 - Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

15 - By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

16 - By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.

17 - I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

18 - With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.

19 - My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield than choice silver.

20 - I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice;

21 - That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.

22 - “Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.

23 - I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

24 - When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.

25 - Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;

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 established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

28 - when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

29 - when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

30 - then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,

31 - Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

32 - “Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

33 - Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

34 - Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

35 - For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

36 - But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”