Wisdom’s Appeal
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At the heights overlooking the road,
at the crossroads, she takes her stand.
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“People, I call out to you;
my cry is to mankind.
5 my cry is to mankind.
Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced;
develop common sense, you who are foolish.
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Listen, for I speak of noble things,
and what my lips say is right.
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I walk in the way of righteousness,
along the paths of justice,
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giving wealth as an inheritance to those who love me,
and filling their treasuries.
and filling their treasuries.
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before He made the land, the fields,
or the first soil on earth.
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when He placed the skies above,
when the fountains of the ocean gushed out,
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Footnotes:
a.
Proverbs 8:3: Lit the mouth of
b.
Proverbs 8:14: Or resourcefulness
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Proverbs 8:16: Some Hb mss, LXX read nobles who judge the earth
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Proverbs 8:22: Or possessed, or begot
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Proverbs 8:22: Lit way
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Proverbs 8:30: Or a confidant, or a child, or was constantly
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Proverbs 8:30: LXX; MT omits His
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Proverbs 8:36: Or who sins against me
Cross references:
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Proverbs 8:3:
Job 29:7
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Proverbs 8:31:
Job 38:4-7