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19 Thus are the ways of all who are greedy for gain—
    it will take the life of its possessors.

The Call of Lady Wisdom

20 Wisdom calls out in the streets,
    in the squares she raises her voice.
21 On a busy corner[a] she cries out,
    at the entrances of the gates in the city, she speaks her sayings:

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 1:21 Literally “head of commotion,” or “head of stirring, bustling”