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\v 1 Listen to Wisdom calling; her voice sounds like that of a woman who shouting in the public square.
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\q1 Understanding raises her voice; she sounds like a woman who calls out to be heard.
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\v 2 On the top of the hills and where the roads come together,
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\q1 there Wisdom stands.
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\v 3 Wisdom also stands at the gates at the entrance to the city, and she calls out with a loud voice. Wisdom says:
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\v 4 "I am calling out to everyone;
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\q2 I am shouting to all the children of humanity!
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\v 5 You people who have no training, you must be taught how to live,
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\q2 you must learn so that you understand deep within you.
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\v 6 Listen to me, because I will explain to you some excellent things.
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\q2 I can teach you about what is right—
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\v 7 for I speak what is true;
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\q2 I detest evil things so much, I hate to even speak about them.
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\v 8 Everything that I say is right;
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\q2 I do not say anything that changes the meaning of what is good or that leads people away from it.
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\v 9 My words give good advice to the one who understands the meaning of what I say;
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\q2 my words are are right for those who have learned to tell what is good from what is evil.
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\v 10 Choose what I teach you,
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\q2 instead of trying to get much silver;
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\q1 and choose the knowledge I will show you, for it is more valuable than gold.
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\v 11 For I, Wisdom, am more precious than jewels;
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\q2 nothing you desire is as valuable as I am.
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\v 12 I, Wisdom, live with Common Sense; we are like two people living in the same house.
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\q1 I know many things, and I act carefully.
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\v 13 Everyone who honors Yahweh hates what is evil.
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\q2 I am Wisdom, and I hate it when people are proud, when they think they are more important than others.
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\q2 I hate it when people act in evil ways, and when they tell lies.
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\v 14 I give good advice and I have the best wisdom;
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\q2 I have true understanding about the nature of things, and I have great strength.
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\v 15 When kings are wise, they rule well;
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\q2 and when rulers are wise, they make laws that are just.
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\v 16 By me, Wisdom, rulers govern their people;
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\q by me those who have authority guide their people with justice.
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\v 17 I am Wisdom, and I love all who love me;
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\q2 those who work hard to find me will find me.
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\v 18 These people will have lasting riches, and they will live right,
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\q2 because I have riches and honor with me.
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\v 19 What I can give people is more valuable than fine gold and the best silver.
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\v 20 I always do what is right.
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\v 21 I give wealth to those who love me,
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\q2 and I fill up their treasuries.
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\v 22 Yahweh created me, Wisdom; he made me when he began to create the world;
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\q2 I was the first thing he created in the beginning.
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\v 23 He appointed me long ago—from the very first, from the beginning of the earth.
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\v 24 I was born before the oceans were created,
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\q2 when there were no springs from which water flowed.
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\v 25 I was born before the hills and mountains were set in place;
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\v 26 I am Wisdom, and I was born before Yahweh made the earth,
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\q2 before he made the tiny particles of dust in the earth, I was there.
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\v 27 I was there when Yahweh put the heavens where they are,
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\q2 on the day when he marked the place in the distance where the sky and the oceans come together.
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\v 28 I was there when Yahweh put the clouds above the earth,
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\q2 and when he held back the water that is inside the earth.
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\v 29 I was there when he fixed a boundary for the seas,
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\q2 so that the water in the seas would not go past those boundaries,
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\q1 and when he marked where the foundation of the earth should be laid.
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\v 30 I was at Yahweh's side as his master craftsman;
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\q1 I made him happy every day, and I always rejoiced when I was with him.
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\v 31 I was delighted with the whole world he created;
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\q2 I was happy with the people he brought into existence, too.
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\v 32 So, you who are my children, listen to me.
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\q2 How fortunate are those who live as I live.
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\v 33 Listen to what I teach you and you will become wise.
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\q2 Do not reject what I have taught you.
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\v 34 How fortunate are those who listen to me,
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\q2 those who wait for me outside my house every day.
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\v 35 Those who find me will find life,
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\q2 and Yahweh will be pleased with them.
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\v 36 But those who do not find me, they hurt themselves.
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\q2 All those who hate me love death."
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