1 - Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?
2 - On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;
3 - Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
4 - Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.
5 - O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.
6 - Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.
7 - For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8 - All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
9 - They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.
10 - Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.
11 - For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.
12 - I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge [and] discretion.
13 - The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.
14 - Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.
15 - By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.
16 - By me princes rule, And nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.
17 - I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.
18 - Riches and honor are with me; [Yea], durable wealth and righteousness.
19 - My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.
20 - I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;
21 - That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their treasuries.
22 - Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.
23 - I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.
24 - When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.
25 - Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;
26 - While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
27 - When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
28 - When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,
29 - When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
30 - Then I was by him, [as] a master workman; And I was daily [his] delight, Rejoicing always before him,
31 - Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.
32 - Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me; For 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, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.
35 - For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.
36 - But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.