¹Does not wisdom call, and understanding raise its voice? ²⌞Atop the heights⌟ beside the road, at the crossroads she stands. ³Beside gates, before towns, at the entrance of doors, she cries out: ⁴“To you, O ⌞people⌟, I call, and my cry is to the children of humankind. ⁵Learn prudence, O simple ones; fools, learn ⌞intelligence⌟. ⁶Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips. ⁷My mouth will utter truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. ⁸All sayings of my mouth are in righteousness; none of them are twisted and crooked. ⁹All of them are straight to him who understands, and upright to those who find knowledge. ¹⁰Take my teaching and not silver; may you choose knowledge rather than choice gold. ¹¹For wisdom is better than jewels, and all desires shall not compare with her. ¹²I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. ¹³The fear of Yahweh is hatred of evil, pride, and arrogance and an evil way. And I hate a mouth of perversity. ¹⁴⌞Advice and sound judgment⌟ are mine; I am understanding, ⌞strength is mine⌟. ¹⁵By me kings reign, and rulers decree righteousness. ¹⁶By me rulers rule, and nobles—all judges of righteousness. ¹⁷I love ⌞those who love me⌟, and those who seek me diligently shall find me. ¹⁸Fortune and glory are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. ¹⁹My fruit is better than gold, even refined gold, and my yield than choice silver. ²⁰In the way of righteousness I walk, in the midst of paths of justice, ²¹in order to endow those who love me with wealth, and I will fill their treasuries. ²²“Yahweh possessed me, the first of his ways, before his acts ⌞of old⌟. ²³From eternity, I was set up from the first, from the beginning of the earth. ²⁴When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs of ⌞abounding⌟ water. ²⁵Before mountains had been shaped, before hills, I was brought forth. ²⁶When he had not yet made earth and fields, or the first dust of the world, ²⁷⌞when he established⌟ the heavens, there I was, ⌞when he drew⌟ a circle upon the face of the deep, ²⁸⌞when he made⌟ skies from above, when he founded fountains of the deep, ²⁹⌞when he assigned⌟ his limits to the sea, that waters shall not transgress his ⌞command⌟, ⌞when he marked⌟ the foundations of the earth, ³⁰I was ⌞beside⌟ him, a master workman, and I was delighting day by day, rejoicing before him ⌞always⌟, ³¹rejoicing in the world of his earth, and my delight was with the children of humankind. ³²“And now, children, listen to me; happy are those who will keep my ways. ³³Hear teaching and be wise; do not neglect it. ³⁴Happy is the person who listens to me, in order to keep watch at my doors day by day, in order to guard the frames of my entrances. ³⁵For he who finds me is he who finds life, and he obtains favor from Yahweh. ³⁶But he who misses me injures himself. All those who hate me love death.”