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Proverbs 8

¹Listen! Wisdom is calling out. Reason is making herself heard.

²On the hilltops near the road and at the crossroads she stands.

³At the entrance to the city, beside the gates, she calls:

⁴"I appeal to all of you; I call to everyone on earth.

⁵Are you immature? Learn to be mature. Are you foolish? Learn to have sense.

⁶Listen to my excellent words; all I tell you is right.

⁷What I say is the truth; lies are hateful to me.

⁸Everything I say is true; nothing is false or misleading.

⁹To those with insight, it is all clear; to the well-informed, it is all plain.

¹⁰Choose my instruction instead of silver; choose knowledge rather than the finest gold.

¹¹"I am Wisdom, I am better than jewels; nothing you want can compare with me.

¹²I am Wisdom, and I have insight; I have knowledge and sound judgment.

¹³To honor the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil ways and false words.

¹⁴I make plans and carry them out. I have understanding, and I am strong.

¹⁵I help kings to govern and rulers to make good laws.

¹⁶Every ruler on earth governs with my help, officials and nobles alike.

¹⁷I love those who love me; whoever looks for me can find me.

¹⁸I have riches and honor to give, prosperity and success.

¹⁹What you get from me is better than the finest gold, better than the purest silver.

²⁰I walk the way of righteousness; I follow the paths of justice,

²¹giving wealth to those who love me, filling their houses with treasures.

²²"The LORD created me first of all, the first of his works, long ago.

²³I was made in the very beginning, at the first, before the world began.

²⁴I was born before the oceans, when there were no springs of water.

²⁵I was born before the mountains, before the hills were set in place,

²⁶before God made the earth and its fields or even the first handful of soil.

²⁷I was there when he set the sky in place, when he stretched the horizon across the ocean,

²⁸when he placed the clouds in the sky, when he opened the springs of the ocean

²⁹and ordered the waters of the sea to rise no further than he said. I was there when he laid the earth's foundations.

³⁰I was beside him like an architect, I was his daily source of joy, always happy in his presence---

³¹happy with the world and pleased with the human race.

³²"Now, young people, listen to me. Do as I say, and you will be happy.

³³Listen to what you are taught. Be wise; do not neglect it.

³⁴Those who listen to me will be happy--- those who stay at my door every day, waiting at the entrance to my home.

³⁵Those who find me find life, and the LORD will be pleased with them.

³⁶Those who do not find me hurt themselves; anyone who hates me loves death."