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\c 8
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\v 1 Does not Wisdom call out?
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\q Does not Understanding raise her voice?
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\q
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\v 2 On the hilltops beside the road,
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\q at the crossroads, Wisdom has taken her stand.
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\q
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\v 3 Before the gates at the entrance into the city,
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\q at the entrances into the city, she calls out.
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\q
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\v 4 "People, I call to you
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\q and I raise my voice to the sons of mankind.
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\v 5 You who are simple, learn wisdom,
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\q and you who hate knowledge, you must have an understanding heart.
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\v 6 Listen and I will speak of noble things
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\q and when my lips open I will say what is right—
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\v 7 for my mouth speaks what is trustworthy
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\q and my lips hate wickedness.
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\v 8 All the words of my mouth are just;
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\q there is nothing twisted or misleading in them.
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\v 9 All my words are straight for the one who understands;
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\q my words are right for those who find knowledge.
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\v 10 Choose my instruction over silver
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\q and knowledge rather than pure gold.
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\v 11 For I, Wisdom, am better than jewels;
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\q nothing that you desire can compare with me.
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\v 12 I, Wisdom, live with Prudence,
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\q and I possess knowledge and discretion.
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\v 13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil—
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\q I hate pride and arrogance, the evil way,
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\q and perverted speech—I hate them.
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\v 14 I have good advice and sound wisdom;
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\q I am insight; strength belongs to me.
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\v 15 By me kings reign—
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\q also noblemen, and all who govern justly.
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\v 16 By me princes rule
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\q and nobles and all who govern with justice.
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\v 17 I love those who love me,
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\q and those who diligently seek me, find me.
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\v 18 With me are riches and honor,
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\q enduring wealth and righteousness.
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\v 19 My fruit is better than gold, better even than fine gold;
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\q what I produce is better than pure silver.
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\v 20 I walk in the way that is right,
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\q in the paths that lead to justice,
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\v 21 so I may give an inheritance to those who love me
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\q and fill up their treasuries.
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\v 22 Yahweh created me from the beginning—
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\q the first of his deeds in ancient times.
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\v 23 From ages long ago I was put in place—from the first,
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\q from the beginnings of the earth.
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\v 24 Before there were oceans, I was given birth—
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\q before there were springs abounding with water,
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\v 25 before the mountains were settled
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\q and before the hills, I was born.
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\v 26 I was born before Yahweh had made the earth or the fields,
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\q or even the first dust in the world.
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\v 27 I was there when he established the heavens,
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\q when he drew the horizon on the surface of the deep.
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\v 28 I was there when he established the skies above and
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\q when he made the fountains of the deep.
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\v 29 I was there when he made limits for the sea,
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\q so the waters should not spread beyond where he commanded them,
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\q and when he ordered where the foundations of the earth should be placed.
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\v 30 I was beside him, as a master craftsman,
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\q and I was his delight day after day,
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\q always rejoicing before him.
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\v 31 I was rejoicing in his whole world
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\q and my delight was in the sons of mankind.
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\v 32 And now, my sons, listen to me,
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\q for those who keep my ways will be happy.
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\v 33 Listen to my instruction and be wise;
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\q do not neglect it.
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\v 34 The one who listens to me will be happy—
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\q watching every day at my gates,
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\q waiting for me beside the doors of my home.
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\v 35 For whoever finds me, finds life,
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\q and he will find the favor of Yahweh.
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\v 36 But he who fails to find me, harms himself;
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\q all who hate me love death."
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