All of them straight to him understanding, and right to those finding knowledge.

Jehovah set me up the beginning of his way, before his works from ancient time.

Receive my instruction and not silver and knowledge above tried gold.

For wisdom is good above pearls, and all delights shall not be made equal with her.

I wisdom dwelt with prudence, and I shall find the knowledge of machinations.

By me chiefs shall have dominion, and nobles all judging the earth.

To me counsel and wisdom: I am understanding; to me is strength.

By me kings shall reign, and princes shall decree justice.

Riches and honor are with me; splendid riches and justice.

I shall go in the way of justice, in the midst of the beaten paths of judgment:

My fruit is good above gold, and above pure gold; and my gain above tried silver.

From forever I was knit together, from the beginning, from the first of the earth.

In his preparing the heavens I was there: in his inscribing a circle upon the face of the deep:

In no depths was I begun; in no fountains abundant in waters.

Hear ye, for I will speak dear things; and the openings of my lips uprightnesses.

In justice are all the sayings of my mouth; nothing in them crooked and perverse.

To cause those loving me to inherit existence: and I will fill their treasures.

Understand craftiness, ye simple: and ye foolish, understand the heart

For my palate shall meditate the truth, and evil is the abomination of my lips.

She stood upon the head of the heights, upon the way of the house of the beaten paths.

And I shall be near him the builder, and I shall be a delight of day, day, smiling before him in all time

Yet he made not the earth and the fields, and the head of the clods of the habitable globe.

At the hand of the gates, at the mouth of the city from the coming in of the doors she will cry:

Before the mountains were settled; before the hills I had a beginning:

To you, ye men, I shall call, and my voice is to the sons of man.

In his setting his law to the sea, and the waters shall not pass by his mouth; in his making firm the foundations of the earth:

In his making firm the clouds from above: in his strengthening the fountains of the deep:

Smiling in the habitable globe of his earth; and my delight with the sons of man.

The fear of Jehovah hates evil: pride and haughtiness, and the evil way, and the mouth of perverseness I hated.

Shall not wisdom call, and understanding give her voice?

Happy the man hearing to me, to watch at my doors day, day; to watch the door posts of my entrances.

I loved those loving me: and they seeking me shall find me.

And now ye sons, hear to me: and the happy shall watch my ways.

And he sinning against me did violence to his soul: all hating me loved death.

For he finding me, the finding of life, and he shall bnng forth acceptance from Jehovah.

Hear ye instructions, and be wise, and ye shall not reject it