Holy Bible - Revised Standard Version(RSV)

8:1	Does not wisdom call, does not understanding raise her voice?
8:2	On the heights beside the way, in the paths she takes her stand;
8:3	beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:
8:4	'To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the sons of men.
8:5	O simple ones, learn prudence;O foolish men, pay attention.
8:6	Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right;
8:7	for my mouth will utter truth;wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8:8	All the words of my mouth are righteous;there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
8:9	They are all straight to him who understands and right to those who find knowledge.
8:10	Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold;
8:11	for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
8:12	I, wisdom, dwell in prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
8:13	The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
8:14	I have counsel and sound wisdom, I have insight, I have strength.
8:15	By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just;
8:16	by me princes rule, and nobles govern the earth.
8:17	I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
8:18	Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and prosperity.
8:19	My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.
8:20	I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,
8:21	endowing with wealth those who love me, and filling their treasuries.
8:22	The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
8:23	Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
8:24	When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
8:25	Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth;
8:26	before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.
8:27	When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
8:28	when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,
8:29	when 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,
8:30	then I was beside him, like a master workman;and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,
8:31	rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men.
8:32	And now, my sons, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.
8:33	Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.
8:34	Happy is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.
8:35	For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD;
8:36	but he who misses me injures himself;all who hate me love death.'