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Does not understanding raise its voice?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>[Wisdom] takes its stand on high ground, by the wayside where the roads meet,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>near the gates to the city. At the entrance [wisdom] sings its song,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>"I am calling to all of you, and my appeal is to all people.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You gullible people, learn how to be sensible. You fools, get a heart that has understanding. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Listen! I am speaking about noble things, and my lips will say what is right.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>My mouth expresses the truth, and wickedness is disgusting to my lips.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Everything I say is fair, and there is nothing twisted or crooked in it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>All of it is clear to a person who has understanding and right to those who have acquired knowledge.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Take my discipline, not silver, and my knowledge rather than fine gold,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>because wisdom is better than jewels. Nothing you desire can equal it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>"I, Wisdom, live with insight, and I acquire knowledge and foresight.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>To fear the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, evil behavior, and twisted speech.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Advice and priceless wisdom are mine. I, Understanding, have strength.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Through me kings reign, and rulers decree fair laws.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Through me princes rule, so do nobles and all fair judges.</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 eagerly looking for me will find me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I have riches and honor, lasting wealth and righteousness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>What I produce is better than gold, pure gold. What I yield is better than fine 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, on the paths of justice,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>to give an inheritance to those who love me and to fill their treasuries.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>"The LORD already possessed me long ago, when his way began, before any of his works.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I was appointed from everlasting from the first, before the earth began.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I was born before there were oceans, before there were springs filled with water.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I was born before the mountains were settled in their places and before the hills,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>when he had not yet made land or fields or the first dust of the world.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>"When he set up the heavens, I was there. When he traced the horizon on the surface of the ocean,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>when he established the skies above, when he determined the currents in the ocean,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>when he set a limit for the sea so the waters would not overstep his command, when he traced the foundations of the earth,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I was beside him as a master craftsman. I made him happy day after day, I rejoiced in front of him all the time, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>found joy in his inhabited world, and delighted in the human race.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>"Now, sons, listen to me. Blessed are those who follow my ways.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Listen to discipline, and become wise. Do not leave my ways.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Blessed is the person who listens to me, watches at my door day after day, and waits by my doorposts.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/8-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Whoever sins against me harms himself. All those who hate me love death."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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