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¹Whether wisdom crieth not oft; and prudence giveth her voice?

²In most sovereign and high tops, above the way, in the midst of paths,

³and it standeth beside the gates of the city, in those enclosings, and speaketh, and saith,

⁴A! ye men, I cry oft to you; and my voice is to the sons of men.

⁵Little children, that is, little of wit, understand ye wisdom; and ye unwise men, perceiveth in heart.

⁶Hear ye, for I shall speak of great things; and my lips shall be opened, to preach rightful or even things.

⁷My throat shall bethink truth; and my lips shall curse a wicked man.

⁸My words be just; no shrewd thing, neither wayward is in those.

⁹They be rightful or right to them that understand; and they be even to them that find knowing.

¹⁰Take ye my chastising or my discipline, and not money; choose ye teaching, more than treasure.

¹¹For wisdom is better than all riches most precious; and all desirable thing may not be comparisoned thereto.

¹²I, wisdom, dwell in counsel; and I am among learned thoughts.

¹³The dread of the Lord hateth evil; I curse boast, and pride, and a shrewd way, and a double-tongued mouth.

¹⁴Counsel is mine, and equity; prudence is mine, and strength.

¹⁵Kings reign by me; and makers of laws deem just things by me.

¹⁶Princes command by me; and mighty men deem rightfulness or rightwiseness by me.

¹⁷I love them that love me; and they that wake early to me, shall find me.

¹⁸With me be riches, and glory; sovereign riches, and rightfulness or rightwiseness.

¹⁹My fruit is better than gold, and precious stone; and my seeds or my burgeonings be better than chosen silver.

²⁰I go in the ways of rightfulness or rightwiseness, in the midst of the paths of doom;

²¹that I make rich them that love me, and that I fill their treasures or their treasuries.

²²The Lord wielded me in the beginning of his ways; before that he made anything, at the beginning.

²³From without beginning I was ordained; and from eld or old times, before that the earth was made.

²⁴The Depths of waters were not yet; and I was conceived then. The wells of waters had not broken out yet,

²⁵and hills stood not altogether yet by firm heaviness; before little hills I was born.

²⁶Yet he had not made the earth; and floods, and the earths of the world.

²⁷When he made ready heavens, I was present; when he compassed or enclosed the depths of waters by certain law and compass.

²⁸When he made steadfast the air above; and weighed the wells of waters.

²⁹When he compassed to the sea his mark; and setted or put law to waters, that they should not pass their coasts. When he weighed the foundaments of the earth;

³⁰I was making all things with him. And I delighted by all days, and played before him in all time,

³¹and I played in the world; and my delights be to be with the sons of men.

³²Now, therefore, sons, hear ye me; blessed be they that keep my ways.

³³Hear ye teaching, and be ye wise men; and do not ye cast it away.

³⁴Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth at my gates all day; and keepeth or waiteth at the posts of my doors.

³⁵He that findeth me, shall find life; and he shall draw health of the Lord.

³⁶But he that sinneth against me shall hurt his soul; all that hate me, love death.