Proverbs 8

1: Does not Wisdom call, and Understanding raise her voice?

2: On the top of the heights along the road at the crossroads she takes her stand:

3: By the gates at the approaches of the city, in the entryways she cries aloud:

4: "To you, O men, I call; my appeal is to the children of men.

5: You simple ones, gain resource, you fools, gain sense.

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10: Receive my instruction in preference to silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

11: [For Wisdom is better than corals, and no choice possession can compare with her.]

12: " I, Wisdom, dwell with experience, and judicious knowledge I attain."

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32: "So now, O children, listen to me;

33: instruction and wisdom do not reject! Happy the man who obeys me, and happy those who keep my ways,

34: Happy the man watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts;

35: For he who finds me finds life, and wins favor from the Lord;

36: But he who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death."