Proverbs

⁷For my mouth shall utter truth, and wrongdoing is detestable and loathsome to my lips. ⁸All the words of my mouth are righteous (upright and in right standing with God); there is nothing contrary to truth or crooked in them. ⁹They are all plain to him who understands [and opens his heart], and right to those who find knowledge [and live by it]. ¹⁰Receive my instruction in preference to [striving for] silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold, ¹¹For skillful and godly Wisdom is better than rubies or pearls, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. [Job 28:15; Ps. 19:10; 119:127.] ¹²I, Wisdom [from God], make prudence my dwelling, and I find out knowledge and discretion. [James 1:5.] ¹³The reverent fear and worshipful awe of the Lord [includes] the hatred of evil; pride, arrogance, the evil way, and perverted and twisted speech I hate.