Proverbs 8:5-14

⁵O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense.

⁶Hear, for I will speak excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

⁷For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

⁸All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing tortuous or perverse in them.

⁹They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

¹⁰Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold:

¹¹for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not equal to it.

¹²I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find the knowledge which cometh of reflection.

¹³The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.

¹⁴Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength.