Wisdom 7:5-15

5 For there is no king that had any other beginning of birth;
6 for all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
7 Therefore I prayed, and understanding was given me; I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.
8 I preferred her before scepters and thrones, and esteemed riches as nothing in comparison to her;
9 neither compared I unto her any precious stone, because all gold with respect to her is as a little sand, and silver shall be counted as clay before her.
10 I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light; for the light that cometh from her never goeth out.
11 All good things together came to me with her, and innumerable riches in her hands.
12 And I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom goeth before them; and I knew not that she was the mother of them.
13 I learned diligently and do communicate her liberally; I do not hide her riches.
14 For she is a treasure unto men that never faileth, which those who use become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts that come from learning.
15 God hath granted me to speak as I would, and to conceive as is meet for the things that are given me, because it is He that leadeth unto wisdom and directeth the wise.
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