8 Does not wisdom call,
    Does not understanding raise her voice?
² On the heights beside the way,
    in the paths she takes her stand;
³ beside the gates in front of the town,
    at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:
⁴ “To you, O men, I call,
    and my cry is to the sons of men.

²² The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,^[a]
    the first of his acts of old.
²³ Ages ago I was set up,
    at the first, before the beginning of the earth.