Proverbs 8

Doth not wisdom cry,

On the top of high places by the way,

Beside the gates, at the entry of the city,

Unto you, O men, I call;

O ye simple, understand prudence;

Hear, for I will speak excellent things;

For my mouth shall utter truth;

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness;

They are all plain to him that understandeth,

Receive my instruction, and not silver;

For wisdom is better than rubies;

I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling,

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil:

Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge:

By me kings reign,

By me princes rule,

I love them that love me;

Riches and honor are with me;

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold;

I walk in the way of righteousness,

That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance,

Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way,

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,

When there were no depths, I was brought forth,

Before the mountains were settled,

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,

When he established the heavens, I was there:

When he made firm the skies above,

When he gave to the sea its bound,

Then I was by him, as a master workman;

Rejoicing in his habitable earth;

Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me;

Hear instruction, and be wise,

Blessed is the man that heareth me,

For whoso findeth me findeth life,

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: