1. Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding lift her voice?
2. On the topmost heights along the way, at the crossroads, she takes her stand.
3. Beside the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries aloud:
4. “To you, O men, I call out! My cry is to all mankind!
5. O naïve ones, learn prudence! Fools, gain understanding!
6. Listen, for I speak excellent things, and my lips utter right things.
7. For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips detest wickedness.
8. All the words of my mouth are righteous, Nothing in them is perverse or crooked.
9. All of them are straightforward to the discerning, and right to those who find knowledge.