1<\/sup>Does not wisdom call out, and prudence bestow her voice?<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>At the summits and the tops of exalted places, standing above the ways, in the midst of the paths,<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>beside the gates of the city, at the very doors, she speaks, saying:<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>“O men, to you I call out, and my voice is to the sons of men.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>O little ones, understand discernment. And you who are unwise, turn your souls.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Listen, for I will speak about great things, and my lips will be opened, so as to foretell what is right.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>My throat shall practice truth, and my lips shall detest the impious.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>All my words are just. There is no depravity in them, and no perversity.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>They are upright to those who understand, and equitable to those who discover knowledge.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Accept my discipline, and not money. Choose the doctrine that is greater than gold.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>For wisdom is better than all that is most precious, and everything that is desirable cannot compare to her.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and I am inside learned thoughts.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>The fear of the Lord hates evil. I detest arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Counsel is mine, and equity. Prudence is mine. Strength is mine.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Through me, kings reign and legislators decree just conditions.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Through me, princes rule and the powerful decree justice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>I love those who love me. And those who stand watch for me until morning shall discover me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>With me, are wealth and glory, superb riches and justice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>For my fruit is better than gold and precious stones, and my progeny better than choice silver.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>so that I may enrich those who love me, and thus complete their treasures.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made anything, from the beginning.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>I was ordained from eternity, and out of antiquity, before the earth was formed.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>The abyss did not yet exist, and I was already conceived; neither had the fountains of waters yet erupted.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>The mountains, with their great mass, had not yet been established. Before the hills, I was brought forth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>Still he had not made the earth, and the rivers, and the poles of the globe of the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>I was already present: when he prepared the heavens; when, with a certain law and a circuit, he fortified the abyss;<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>when he made firm the sky above, and set free the fountains of waters;<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>when he encompassed the sea within its limits, and laid down a law for the waters, lest they transgress their limits; when he weighed the foundations of the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>I was with him in composing all things. And I was delighted, throughout every day, by playing in his sight at all times,<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>playing in globe of the earth. And my delight was to be with the sons of men.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>Therefore, sons, hear me now. Blessed are those who preserve my ways.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>Listen to discipline, and become wise, and do not be willing to cast it aside.<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>Blessed is the man who listens to me, and who stands watch at my gates everyday, and who observes at the posts of my doors.<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>He who finds me, finds life, and he will draw salvation from the Lord.<\/span> <\/p>\n 36<\/sup>But he who sins against me will wound his own soul. All who hate me love death.”<\/span> <\/p>\n