Proverbs 8:3

beside the gates opening into ¹  the city, at the entrance of the doorways she cries out: ² 

beside the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries aloud:

Beside the gates, at the opening to the city, At the entrance of the doors, she cries out:

At the entrance to the city, at the city gates, she cries aloud,

Right in the city square where the traffic is thickest, she shouts,

Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out:

She cries out by the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entrance of the doors:

beside the gates opening into ¹  the city, at the entrance of the doorways she cries out: ² 

¹ tn Heb “at the mouth of.”

² tn The cry is a very loud ringing cry that could not be missed. The term רָנַן (ranan) means “to give a ringing cry.” It is often only a shrill sound that might come with a victory in battle, but its use in the psalms for praise shows that it also can have clear verbal content, as it does here. For wisdom to stand in the street and give such a ringing cry would mean that it could be heard by all. It was a proclamation.