Wisdom 7:1–9
1I myself am also mortal, like everyone else, and am a descendant of one formed first and born of the earth.↗
2I molded into flesh in the time of ten months in my mother’s womb, being compacted in blood from the seed of man and pleasure of marriage.↗
3I also, when I was born, drew in the common air, and fell upon the kindred earth, uttering, like all, for my first voice, the same cry.↗
4I was nursed with care in swaddling clothes.↗
5For no king had a different beginning,↗
6but all men have one entrance into life, and a common departure.↗
7For this cause I prayed, and understanding was given to me. I asked, and a spirit of wisdom came to me.↗
8I preferred her before sceptres and thrones. I considered riches nothing in comparison to her.↗
9Neither did I liken to her any priceless gem, because all gold in her presence is a little sand, and silver will be considered as clay before her.↗
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