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| 1. | Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice ? |
| 2. | Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths. |
| 3. | Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying: |
| 4. | O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. |
| 5. | O little ones, understand subtilty, and ye unwise, take notice. |
| 6. | Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things. |
| 7. | My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness. |
| 8. | All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse in them. |
| 9. | They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge. |
| 10. | Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold. |
| 11. | 11For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to |
| 12. | I wisdom dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts. |
| 13. | The fear of the Lord hateth evil: I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue. |
| 14. | Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine. |
| 15. | By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things, |
| 16. | By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice. |
| 17. | I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me. |
| 18. | With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice. |
| 19. | For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver. |
| 20. | I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment, |
| 21. | That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures. |
| 22. | The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. |
| 23. | I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made. |
| 24. | The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out: |
| 25. | The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before the hills I was brought forth: |
| 26. | He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world. |
| 27. | When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths: |
| 28. | When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters: |
| 29. | When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when be balanced the foundations of the earth; |
| 30. | I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times; |
| 31. | Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men. |
| 32. | Now therefore, ye children, hear me: 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, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. |
| 35. | He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord: |
| 36. | But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death. |