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