Proverbs 8:1-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

8 Does not wisdom call,
    and does not understanding raise her voice?
² On the heights, beside the way,
    at the crossroads she takes her stand;
³ beside the gates in front of the town,
    at the entrance of the portals she cries out:
⁴ “To you, O people, I call,
    and my cry is to all that live.
⁵ O simple ones, learn prudence;
    acquire intelligence, you who lack it.