Wisdom 10:10–18

¹⁰When a righteous man was a fugitive from a brother’s wrath, wisdom guided him in straight paths. She showed him God’s kingdom, and gave him knowledge of holy things. She prospered him in his toils, and multiplied the fruits of his labor.↗

¹¹When in their covetousness men dealt harshly with him, she stood by him and made him rich.↗

¹²She guarded him from enemies, and she kept him safe from those who lay in wait. Over his severe conflict, she watched as judge, that he might know that godliness is more powerful than every one.↗

¹³When a righteous man was sold, wisdom didn’t forsake him, but she delivered him from sin. She went down with him into a dungeon,↗

¹⁴and in bonds she didn’t depart from him, until she brought him the sceptre of a kingdom, and authority over those that dealt like a tyrant with him. She also showed those who had mockingly accused him to be false, and gave him eternal glory.↗

¹⁵Wisdom delivered a holy people and a blameless seed from a nation of oppressors.↗

¹⁶She entered into the soul of a servant of the Lord, and withstood terrible kings in wonders and signs.↗

¹⁷She rendered to holy men a reward of their toils. She guided them along a marvelous way, and became to them a covering in the day-time, and a starry flame through the night.↗

¹⁸She brought them over the Red sea, and led them through much water;↗