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¹ Does not wisdom call out?
Does not understanding raise her voice?
² At the top of the elevated places along the way,
at the intersection of the paths she takes her stand;
³ beside the gates opening into the city,
at the entrance of the doorways she cries out:
⁴ "To you, O people, I call out,
and my voice calls to all mankind.
⁵ You who are naive, discern wisdom!
And you fools, understand discernment!
⁶ Listen, for I will speak excellent things,
and my lips will utter what is right.
⁷ For my mouth speaks truth,
and my lips hate wickedness.
⁸ All the words of my mouth are righteous;
there is nothing in them twisted or crooked.
⁹ All of them are clear to the discerning
and upright to those who find knowledge.
¹⁰ Receive my instruction rather than silver,
and knowledge rather than choice gold.
¹¹ For wisdom is better than rubies,
and desirable things cannot be compared to her.
¹² "I, wisdom, live with prudence,
and I find knowledge and discretion.
¹³ The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
I hate arrogant pride and the evil way
and perverse utterances.
¹⁴ Counsel and sound wisdom belong to me;
I possess understanding and might.
¹⁵ Kings reign by means of me,
and potentates decree righteousness;
¹⁶ by me princes rule,
as well as nobles and all righteous judges.
¹⁷ I love those who love me,
and those who seek me find me.
¹⁸ Riches and honor are with me,
long-lasting wealth and righteousness.
¹⁹ My fruit is better than the purest gold,
and what I produce is better than choice silver.
²⁰ I walk in the path of righteousness,
in the pathway of justice,
²¹ that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth,
and that I may fill their treasuries.
²² The Lord created me as the beginning of his works,
before his deeds of long ago.
²³ From eternity I was appointed,
from the beginning, from before the world existed.
²⁴ When there were no deep oceans I was born,
when there were no springs overflowing with water;
²⁵ before the mountains were set in place—
before the hills—I was born,
²⁶ before he made the earth and its fields,
or the beginning of the dust of the world.
²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there;
when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,
²⁸ when he established the clouds above,
when the fountains of the deep grew strong,
²⁹ when he gave the sea his decree
that the waters should not pass over his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
³⁰ then I was beside him as a master craftsman,
and I was his delight day by day,
rejoicing before him at all times,
³¹ rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth,
and delighting in its people.
³² "So now, children, listen to me;
blessed are those who keep my ways.
³³ Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise,
and do not neglect it.
³⁴ Blessed is the one who listens to me,
watching at my doors day by day,
waiting beside my doorway.
³⁵ For the one who finds me finds life
and receives favor from the Lord.
³⁶ But the one who does not find me brings harm to himself;
all who hate me love death."