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Atop the heights[a] beside the road,
    at the crossroads she stands.
Beside gates, before towns,
    at the entrance of doors, she cries out:
“To you, O people,[b] I call,
    and my cry is to the children of humankind.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 8:2 Literally “At a head of the heights”
  2. Proverbs 8:4 Literally “men”

She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

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On (A)the heights beside the way,
    at the crossroads she takes her stand;
beside (B)the gates in front of (C)the town,
    at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:
“To you, O (D)men, I call,
    and my cry is to (E)the children of man.

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