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8:1  Wisdom is calling! Understanding is raising her voice!
8:2  On the heights along the road, where the paths meet, she is standing;
8:3  by the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries aloud:
8:4  “People, I am calling you, raising my voice to all mankind.
8:5  You who don’t direct your lives, understand caution; as for you, you fools, get some common sense!
8:6  “Listen! I will say worthwhile things; when I speak, my words are right.
8:7  My mouth says what is true, because my lips detest evil.
8:8  All the words from my mouth are righteous; nothing false or crooked is in them.
8:9  They are all clear to those who understand and straightforward to those who gain knowledge.
8:10  Receive my instruction, rather than silver; knowledge, rather than the finest gold.
8:11  For wisdom is better than pearls; nothing you want can compare with her.
8:12  “I, wisdom, live together with caution; I attain knowledge and discretion.
8:13  The fear of Adonai is hatred of evil. I hate pride and arrogance, evil ways and duplicitous speech.
8:14  Good advice is mine, and common sense; I am insight, power is mine.
8:15  By me kings reign, and princes make just laws.
8:16  By me princes govern, nobles too, and all the earth’s rulers.
8:17  I love those who love me; and those who seek me will find me.
8:18  Riches and honor are with me, lasting wealth and righteousness.
8:19  My fruit is better than gold, fine gold, my produce better than the finest silver.
8:20  I follow the course of righteousness along the paths of justice,
8:21  to endow with wealth those who love me and fill their treasuries.
8:22  “Adonai made me as the beginning of his way, the first of his ancient works.
8:23  I was appointed before the world, before the start, before the earth’s beginnings.
8:24  When I was brought forth, there were no ocean depths, no springs brimming with water.
8:25  I was brought forth before the hills, before the mountains had settled in place;
8:26  he had not yet made the earth, the fields, or even the earth’s first grains of dust.
8:27  When he established the heavens, I was there. When he drew the horizon’s circle on the deep,
8:28  when he set the skies above in place, when the fountains of the deep poured forth,
8:29  when he prescribed boundaries for the sea, so that its water would not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
8:30  I was with him as someone he could trust. For me, every day was pure delight, as I played in his presence all the time,.
8:31  playing everywhere on his earth, and delighting to be with humankind.
8:32  “Therefore, children, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.
8:33  Hear instruction, and grow wise; do not refuse it.
8:34  How happy the person who listens to me, who watches daily at my gates and waits outside my doors.
8:35  For he who finds me finds life and obtains the favor of Adonai.
8:36  But he who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”