Proverbs 8:1-7

New International Reader's Version

8 Doesn’t wisdom call out?
    Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?
² At the highest point along the way,
    she takes her place where the paths meet.
³ Beside the gate leading into the city,
    she cries out at the entrance. She says,
⁴ “People, I call out to you.
    I raise my voice to all human beings.
⁵ You who are childish, get some good sense.
    You who are foolish, set your hearts on getting it.
⁶ Listen! I have things to say that you can depend on.
    I open my lips to speak what is right.
⁷ My mouth speaks what is true.
    My lips hate evil.