1<\/sup>Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice ?<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying:<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>O little ones, understand subtilty, and ye unwise, take notice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse in them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>11For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>I wisdom dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>The fear of the Lord hateth evil: I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things,<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms 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>That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out:<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before the hills I was brought forth:<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths:<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when be balanced the foundations of the earth;<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord:<\/span> <\/p>\n 36<\/sup>But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.<\/span> <\/p>\n