1Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? (أي 28:12; أم 1:20)2On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; (أم 9:3; أم 9:14)3beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: (أي 29:7; أم 1:21)4“To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. (مز 49:1)5O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense. (أم 1:4; أم 1:22; أم 8:12)6Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right, (أم 22:20; أم 23:16)7for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips. (مز 37:30)8All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them. (تث 32:5)9They are all straight to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge. (أم 14:6; 1كو 2:10)10Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold, (مز 119:72; مز 119:127; أم 3:14; أم 8:19)11for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her. (أي 28:12; أم 3:15; أم 16:16)12“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. (أم 1:4)13The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate. (مز 97:10; أم 2:12; أم 4:24; أم 6:17; أم 16:5; أم 16:6)14I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength. (مز 89:19; أم 2:7; جا 7:19; إش 9:6; إش 11:2)15By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just; (دا 2:21; رو 13:1; رؤ 19:16)16by me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly.[1]17I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me. (1صم 2:30; مز 91:14; أم 1:28; يو 14:21; يع 1:5)18Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. (مز 112:3; أم 3:16; مت 6:33; لو 16:11; أف 3:8)19My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver. (أم 3:14; أم 8:10; أم 10:20)20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,21granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries.22“The Lord possessed[2] me at the beginning of his work,[3] the first of his acts of old. (تك 14:19; تك 14:22; أي 28:25; مز 93:2; مز 104:24; مز 136:5)23Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. (مز 2:6; يو 17:5)24When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. (تك 1:2; أي 15:7; مز 51:5; أم 3:20; أم 8:27)25Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, (أي 38:6; مز 90:2)26before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, (أي 26:10; أم 3:19)28when he made firm the skies above, when he established[4] the fountains of the deep, (تك 1:6)29when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, (تك 1:9; أي 26:10; مز 104:5)30then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his[5] delight, rejoicing before him always, (مز 16:3; زك 13:7; مت 3:17; يو 1:1)31rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man. (تك 1:31; مز 104:31; إش 45:18)32“And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways. (مز 119:1; مز 128:1; أم 5:7; أم 7:24; لو 11:28; 1يو 3:1)33Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. (أم 4:1)34Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors. (أم 3:13)35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord, (أم 3:18; أم 4:22; أم 12:2; أم 18:22; يو 1:4; يو 17:3)36but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.” (أم 12:1; أم 15:32; أم 20:2; أم 21:6; أم 29:24)