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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 highest point along the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3beside the gate leading into the city, at the entrance, she cries aloud: |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"To you, O people, I call out; I raise my voice to all mankind. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5You who are simple, gain prudence; you who are foolish, set your hearts on it. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Listen, for I have trustworthy things to say; I open my lips to speak what is right. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7My mouth speaks what is true, for my lips detest wickedness. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8All the words of my mouth are just; none of them is crooked or perverse. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9To the discerning all of them are right; they are upright to those who have found knowledge. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Choose my instruction instead of silver, knowledge rather than choice gold, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11for wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledge and discretion. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight, I have power. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15By me kings reign and rulers issue decrees that are just; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16by me princes govern, and nobles--all who rule on earth. |
| 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] | 18With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21bestowing a rich inheritance on those who love me and making their treasuries full. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old; |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water; |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26before he made the world or its fields or any of the dust of the earth. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Then I was constantly at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32"Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Listen to my instruction and be wise; do not disregard it. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Blessed are those who listen to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35For those who find me find life and receive favor from the LORD. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death." |
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