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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4“To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9They are all straight to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16by me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22“The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32“And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD, |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.” |
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