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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.