ECB(i)
1 Wisdom, calls she not? And discernment, give her voice?
2 She stands in the top of the heights by the way between the houses of the paths;
3 she shouts at the handle of the portals - at the mouth of the city at the entry at the portals.
4 To you, O men, I call; and my voice to the sons of humanity:
5 to you, O gullible, discern strategy; and you, O fools, discern heart:
6 hear; for I speak of eminence; and the opening of my lips of straightnesses:
7 for my palate meditates truth; and wickedness is an abhorrence to my lips:
8 all the sayings of my mouth are in justness; naught of them is twisted or perverted:
9 they are all straightforward to him who discerns and straight to them who find knowledge.
10 Take my discipline and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice ore:
11 better, wisdom than pearls; and all those desires not comparable.
12 I - wisdom dwell with strategy and find out knowledge of intrigue.
13 The awe of Yah Veh is to hate evil; pomp and pompousness and the evil way and the mouth of perversions, I hate:
14 counsel and substance are mine; I - discernment; I have might:
15 by me sovereigns reign and potentates set statutes of justness:
16 by me governors govern; and volunteers; all the judges of the earth.
17 I love them who love me; and they who seek me early find me:
18 riches and honor are with me; expensive antiques and justness:
19 better, my fruit than ore; yes, than pure gold; and my produce than choice silver.
20 I walk in the way of justness midst the paths of judgment;
21 that my lovers inherit substance; and I fill their treasures.
22 Yah Veh chattelized me in the beginning of his way - in his ancient deeds.
23 I was libated from eternity - from the top - from the antiquity of the earth.
24 When there were no abysses, I was writhed; when there were no fountains heavy with water:
25 ere the mountains were sunk at the face of the hills, I was writhed:
26 while as yet he had neither worked the earth nor the outways nor the top of the dust of the world:
27 when he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he engraved a circle on the face of the abyss;
28 when he strengthened the vapours above; when he strengthened the eyes of the abyss;
29 when he set his statute to the sea, that the waters not pass his mouth; when he prescribed the foundations of the earth;
30 then I am beside him, as one brought up; and day by day I am his delight, at all times laughing by his face;
31 laughing in the world of his earth; and my delights are with the sons of humanity.
32 Now, O sons, hearken to me, for blithe - they who guard my ways;
33 hear discipline and enwisen and refuse it not:
34 Blithe - the human who hears me; guarding day by day at my gates; waiting at the posts of my portals.
35 For whoever finds me finds life and promotes the pleasure of Yah Veh:
36 and whoever sins against me violates his own soul; all who hate me love death.