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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/7.htm" title="Proverbs 7">◄</a> Proverbs 8 <a href="../proverbs/9.htm" title="Proverbs 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch24008" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn24008" class="cn"></h1> <section> <h2 class="ahaft">The Discourse of Wisdom<a id="rfn24008000-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24008000-1">*</a></h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v24008001" class="ver">1</span>Does not Wisdom call,</p> <p class="sl1">and Understanding raise her voice?<a id="ren24008001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24008001-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008002" class="ver">2</span>On the top of the heights along the road,</p> <p class="sl1">at the crossroads she takes her stand;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008003" class="ver">3</span>By the gates at the approaches of the city,</p> <p class="sl1">in the entryways she cries aloud:</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008004" class="ver">4</span>“To you, O people, I call;</p> <p class="sl1">my appeal is to you mortals.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008005" class="ver">5</span>You naive ones, gain prudence,</p> <p class="sl1">you fools,<a id="rfn24008005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24008005-1">*</a> gain sense.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008006" class="ver">6</span>Listen! for noble things I speak;</p> <p class="sl1">my lips proclaim honest words.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008007" class="ver">7</span><a id="rfn24008007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24008007-1">*</a> Indeed, my mouth utters truth,</p> <p class="sl1">and my lips abhor wickedness.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008008" class="ver">8</span>All the words of my mouth are sincere,</p> <p class="sl1">none of them wily or crooked;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008009" class="ver">9</span>All of them are straightforward to the intelligent,</p> <p class="sl1">and right to those who attain knowledge.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008010" class="ver">10</span>Take my instruction instead of silver,</p> <p class="sl1">and knowledge rather than choice gold.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008011" class="ver">11</span>[For Wisdom is better than corals,</p> <p class="sl1">and no treasures can compare with her.<a id="ren24008011-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24008011-b">b</a>]</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008012" class="ver">12</span>I, Wisdom, dwell with prudence,</p> <p class="sl1">and useful knowledge I have.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008013" class="ver">13</span>[The fear of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> is hatred of evil;]</p> <p class="sl">Pride, arrogance, the evil way,</p> <p class="sl1">and the perverse mouth I hate.<a id="ren24008013-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24008013-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008014" class="ver">14</span>Mine are counsel and advice;</p> <p class="sl1">Mine is strength; I am understanding.<a id="rfn24008014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24008014-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008015" class="ver">15</span>By me kings reign,</p> <p class="sl1">and rulers enact justice;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008016" class="ver">16</span>By me princes govern,</p> <p class="sl1">and nobles, all the judges of the earth.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008017" class="ver">17</span>Those who love me I also love,</p> <p class="sl1">and those who seek me find me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008018" class="ver">18</span>With me are riches and honor,<a id="ren24008018-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24008018-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl1">wealth that endures, and righteousness.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008019" class="ver">19</span>My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold,</p> <p class="sl1">and my yield than choice silver.<a id="ren24008019-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24008019-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008020" class="ver">20</span>On the way of righteousness I walk,</p> <p class="sl1">along the paths of justice,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008021" class="ver">21</span>Granting wealth to those who love me,</p> <p class="sl1">and filling their treasuries.</p> <p class="slf"><span id="v24008022" class="ver">22</span><a id="rfn24008022-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24008022-1">*</a> “The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> begot me, the beginning of his works,</p> <p class="sl1">the forerunner of his deeds of long ago;<a id="ren24008022-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24008022-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008023" class="ver">23</span>From of old I was formed,<a id="rfn24008023-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24008023-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">at the first, before the earth.<a id="ren24008023-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24008023-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008024" class="ver">24</span><a id="rfn24008024-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24008024-1">*</a> When there were no deeps I was brought forth,</p> <p class="sl1">when there were no fountains or springs of water;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008025" class="ver">25</span>Before the mountains were settled into place,</p> <p class="sl1">before the hills, I was brought forth;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008026" class="ver">26</span>When the earth and the fields were not yet made,</p> <p class="sl1">nor the first clods of the world.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008027" class="ver">27</span>When he established the heavens, there was I,<a id="ren24008027-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24008027-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl1">when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008028" class="ver">28</span>When he made firm the skies above,</p> <p class="sl1">when he fixed fast the springs of the deep;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008029" class="ver">29</span>When he set for the sea its limit,</p> <p class="sl1">so that the waters should not transgress his command;</p> <p class="sl">When he fixed the foundations of earth,</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v24008030" class="ver">30</span>then was I beside him as artisan;<a id="rfn24008030-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24008030-1">*</a> <a id="ren24008030-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24008030-i">i</a></p> <p class="sl">I was his delight day by day,</p> <p class="sl1">playing before him all the while,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008031" class="ver">31</span>Playing over the whole of his earth,</p> <p class="sl1">having my delight with human beings.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008032" class="ver">32</span><a id="rfn24008032-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24008032-1">*</a> Now, children, listen to me;</p> <p class="sl1">happy are they who keep my ways.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008033" class="ver">33</span>Listen to instruction and grow wise,</p> <p class="sl1">do not reject it!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008034" class="ver">34</span>Happy the one who listens to me,</p> <p class="sl1">attending daily at my gates,</p> <p class="sl1">keeping watch at my doorposts;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008035" class="ver">35</span>For whoever finds me finds life,<a id="ren24008035-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24008035-j">j</a></p> <p class="sl1">and wins favor from the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24008036" class="ver">36</span>But those who pass me by do violence to themselves;</p> <p class="sl1">all who hate me love death.”</p> </div> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 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