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¹ Doth not, wisdom, cry aloud? and, understanding, send forth her voice?² At the top of the high places above the way, at the place where paths meet, she taketh her stand:³ Beside the gates, at the entrance of the city, - at the going in of the openings, she shouteth: - ⁴ Unto you, O men, I call, and, my voice, is unto the sons of men;⁵ Understand, ye simple ones, shrewdness, and, ye dullards understand sense;⁶ Hear, for, princely things, will I speak, and the opening of my lips shall be of equity;⁷ For, faithfulness, shall my mouth softly utter, but, the abomination of my lips, shall be lawlessness;⁸ In righteousness, shall be all the sayings of my mouth, nothing therein, shall be crafty or perverse;⁹ All of them, shall be plain, to them who would understand, and just, to such as would gain knowledge.¹⁰ Receive my correction, and not silver, and knowledge, rather than choicest gold.¹¹ For better is wisdom, than ornaments of coral, and, no delightful things, can equal her.

¹² I, wisdom, inhabit shrewdness, - and, the knowledge of sagacious things, I gain.¹³ The reverence of Yahweh, is to hate wickedness: pride, arrogance, and the way of wickedness; And a mouth of perverse things, do I hate.¹⁴ Mine, are counsel, and effective working, I, am understanding, mine, is valour:¹⁵ By me, kings reign, and dignitaries decree righteousness;¹⁶ By me, rulers govern, and nobles - all the righteous judges:¹⁷ I love, them who love me, and, they who diligently seek me, find me:¹⁸ Riches and honour, are with me, lordly wealth, and righteousness;¹⁹ Better is my fruit, than gold - yea fine gold, and mine increase, than choice silver;²⁰ In the way of righteousness, I march along, in the middle of the paths of justice:²¹ That I may cause them who love me to inherit substance, and, their treasuries, I may fill.

²² Yahweh, had constituted me the beginning of his way, before his works, at the commencement of that time;²³ At the outset of the ages, had I been established, in advance of the antiquities of the earth;²⁴ When there was no resounding deep, I had been brought forth, when there were no fountains, abounding with water;²⁵ Ere yet the mountains had been settled, before the hills, had I been brought forth;²⁶ Or ever he had made the land and the wastes, or the top of the dry parts of the world:²⁷ When he prepared the heavens, there, was I! When he decreed a vault upon the face of the resounding deep;²⁸ When he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the resounding deep, waxed strong;²⁹ When he fixed for the sea its bound, that, the waters, should not go beyond his bidding, when he decreed the foundations of the earth: - ³⁰ Then became I beside him, a firm and sure worker, then became I filled with delight, day by day, exulting before him on every occasion;³¹ Exulting in the fruitful land of his earth, Yea, my fulness of delight, was with the sons of men.

³² Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, for how happy are they who, to my ways, pay regard!³³ Hear ye correction, and be wise, and do not neglect.³⁴ How happy the man that doth hearken to me, - keeping guard at my doors, day by day, watching at the posts of my gates;³⁵ For, he that findeth me, findeth life, and hath obtained favour from Yahweh;³⁶ But, he that misseth me, wrongeth his own soul, all who hate me, love death.