| 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. |
