1Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? (伯28:12; 箴1:20)2On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; (箴9:3; 箴9:14)3beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: (伯29:7; 箴1:21)4“To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. (诗49:1)5O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense. (箴1:4; 箴1:22; 箴8:12)6Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right, (箴22:20; 箴23:16)7for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips. (诗37:30)8All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them. (申32:5)9They are all straight to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge. (箴14:6; 林前2:10)10Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold, (诗119:72; 诗119:127; 箴3:14; 箴8:19)11for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her. (伯28:12; 箴3:15; 箴16:16)12“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. (箴1:4)13The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate. (诗97:10; 箴2:12; 箴4:24; 箴6:17; 箴16:5; 箴16:6)14I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength. (诗89:19; 箴2:7; 传7:19; 赛9:6; 赛11:2)15By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just; (但2:21; 羅13:1; 启19:16)16by me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly.[1]17I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me. (撒上2:30; 诗91:14; 箴1:28; 约14:21; 雅1:5)18Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. (诗112:3; 箴3:16; 太6:33; 路16:11; 弗3:8)19My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver. (箴3:14; 箴8:10; 箴10:20)20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,21granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries.22“The Lord possessed[2] me at the beginning of his work,[3] the first of his acts of old. (创14:19; 创14:22; 伯28:25; 诗93:2; 诗104:24; 诗136:5)23Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. (诗2:6; 约17:5)24When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. (创1:2; 伯15:7; 诗51:5; 箴3:20; 箴8:27)25Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, (伯38:6; 诗90:2)26before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, (伯26:10; 箴3:19)28when he made firm the skies above, when he established[4] the fountains of the deep, (创1:6)29when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, (创1:9; 伯26:10; 诗104:5)30then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his[5] delight, rejoicing before him always, (诗16:3; 亚13:7; 太3:17; 约1:1)31rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man. (创1:31; 诗104:31; 赛45:18)32“And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways. (诗119:1; 诗128:1; 箴5:7; 箴7:24; 路11:28; 约一3:1)33Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. (箴4:1)34Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors. (箴3:13)35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord, (箴3:18; 箴4:22; 箴12:2; 箴18:22; 约1:4; 约17:3)36but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.” (箴12:1; 箴15:32; 箴20:2; 箴21:6; 箴29:24)