8 Does not wisdom call out?^(A)
    Does not understanding raise her voice?
² At the highest point along the way,
    where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
³ beside the gate leading into the city,
    at the entrance, she cries aloud:^(B)
4 “To you, O people, I call out;^(C)
    I raise my voice to all mankind.
⁵ You who are simple,^(D) gain prudence;^(E)
    you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.^[a]
6 Listen, for I have trustworthy things to say;
    I open my lips to speak what is right.
⁷ My mouth speaks what is true,^(F)
    for my lips detest wickedness.
⁸ All the words of my mouth are just;
    none of them is crooked or perverse.

⁴     “Let all who are simple^(A) come to my house!”
To those who have no sense^(B) she says,
⁵     “Come,^(C) eat my food
    and drink the wine I have mixed.^(D)
6 Leave your simple ways and you will live;^(E)
    walk in the way of insight.”^(F)

¹ The heavens^(A) declare^(B) the glory of God;^(C)
    the skies^(D) proclaim the work of his hands.^(E)
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
    night after night they reveal knowledge.^(F)
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
    no sound is heard from them.
⁴ Yet their voice^[b] goes out into all the earth,
    their words to the ends of the world.^(G)
In the heavens God has pitched a tent^(H) for the sun.^(I)
5     It is like a bridegroom^(J) coming out of his chamber,^(K)
    like a champion^(L) rejoicing to run his course.
⁶ It rises at one end of the heavens^(M)
    and makes its circuit to the other;^(N)
    nothing is deprived of its warmth.