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Doesn't understanding raise her voice?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>"To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>"I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield than choice silver.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>"Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was brought forth;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>"Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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