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8:1  Doth not Chochmah cry out? And Tevunah (understanding) put forth her voice?
8:2  In the top of high hills, beside the derech (road) in the bais netivot (meeting place of trodden paths, crossroads) nitzavah (she [Lady Wisdom, the lady street preacher] stands).
8:3  She crieth out at the she’arim (gates), at the entry of the city, at the entrance at the petachim (doorways):
8:4  Unto you, O ishim, I call out; and my voice is to the Bnei Adam.
8:5  O ye simple ones, understand armah (prudence); and, ye kesilim, understand in your lev.
8:6  Hear; for I will speak negidim (noble things, worthy [words]); and the opening of my sfatayim (lips) shall be meisharim (upright, fair things).
8:7  For my mouth shall speak emes; and resha is an abomination to my sfatayim (lips).
8:8  All the words of my peh (mouth) are in tzedek; there is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
8:9  They are all correct to him that discerneth, and yesharim (straight ones) to them that find da’as (knowledge).
8:10  Receive my musar, and not kesef; and da’as (knowledge) rather than choice gold.
8:11  For chochmah is tovah (better, more precious) than pearls; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
8:12  I, Chochmah, dwell with armah (prudence), and find out da’as (knowledge) of mezimot (discretions).
8:13  The Yirat Hashem is to hate rah; pride, and ga’on (arrogance), and the derech rah, and the perverse peh (mouth), do I hate.
8:14  Etzah (counsel, advice) is mine, and sound judgment; I am binah; I have gevurah.
8:15  By me melachim reign, and nobles decree tzedek.
8:16  By me sarim (princes) rule, and nobles, even all the shofetim of tzedek.
8:17  I love them that have ahavah for me; and those that seek me shall find me.
8:18  Osher and kavod are with me; indeed, enduring hon (wealth) and tzedakah.
8:19  My p’ri is better than gold, indeed, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice kesef.
8:20  I walk in the orach tzedakah (way of righteousness), in the midst of the netivot (paths) of mishpat,
8:21  That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their otzarot.
8:22  Hashem possessed me in the reshit of His derech, before His works of old.
8:23  I was set up [to reign] me’olam (from eternity), from the beginning, or ever eretz was.
8:24  When there were no tehomot, I was brought forth; when there were no springs abounding with mayim.
8:25  Before the harim were settled, before the geva’ot (hills) was I brought forth;
8:26  While as yet He had not made eretz, nor the outer places, nor the beginning of the dust of the tevel.
8:27  When He set in place Shomayim, I was there; when He drew a khoog (circle, horizon) upon the face of the tehom,
8:28  When He established the clouds above, when He strengthened the fountains of the tehom,
8:29  When He gave to the yam His chok (decree, limits), that the mayim should not pass its limits, when He appointed the foundations of the Eretz;
8:30  Then I was etzel (at the side of, beside [see Yn 1:1]) Him, as an Amon (master craftsman, builder, architect, artist); and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him [Mishle 30:4] ;
8:31  Rejoicing in the tevel of His Eretz; and my delights were with the Bnei Adam.
8:32  Now therefore pay heed unto me, O ye banim; for ashrei (blessed, happy) are they that are shomer over my drakhim.
8:33  Hear musar, and be chacham, and disdain it not.
8:34  Ashrei is adam that heareth me, watching daily at my dalatot, waiting at the mezuzot of my doors.
8:35  For whosoever findeth me findeth Chayyim, and shall obtain ratzon Hashem.
8:36  But he that sinneth against me doth chamas against his own nefesh; all they that hate me love mavet.