81Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?+2On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;+3Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:+4Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.+5O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.+6Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.+7For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.+8All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.+9They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.+10Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.+11For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.+12I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge [and] discretion.+13The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.+14Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.+15By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.+16By me princes rule, And nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.+17I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.+18Riches and honor are with me; [Yea], durable wealth and righteousness.+19My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.+20I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;+21That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their treasuries.+22Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.+23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.+24When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.+25Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;+26While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.+27When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,+28When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,+29When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;+30Then I was by him, [as] a master workman; And I was daily [his] delight, Rejoicing always before him,+31Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.+32Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways.+33Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not.+34Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.+35For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.+36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.+
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