1Doth not wisdom cry,
2On the top of high places by the way,
3Beside the gates, at the entry of the city,
4Unto you, O men, I call;
5O ye simple, understand prudence;
6Hear, for I will speak excellent things;
7For my mouth shall utter truth;
8All the words of my mouth are in righteousness;
9They are all plain to him that understandeth,
10Receive my instruction, and not silver;
11For wisdom is better than rubies;
12I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling,
13The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil:
14Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge:
15By me kings reign,
16By me princes rule,
17I love them that love me;
18Riches and honor are with me;
19My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold;
20I walk in the way of righteousness,
21That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance,
22Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way,
23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
24When there were no depths, I was brought forth,
25Before the mountains were settled,
26While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,
27When he established the heavens, I was there:
28When he made firm the skies above,
29When he gave to the sea its bound,
30Then I was by him, as a master workman;
31Rejoicing in his habitable earth;
32Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me;
33Hear instruction, and be wise,
34Blessed is the man that heareth me,
35For whoso findeth me findeth life,
36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: