Wisdom 7:10–18
10I loved her more than health and beauty, and I chose to have her rather than light, because her bright shining is never laid to sleep.↗
11All good things came to me with her, and innumerable riches are in her hands.↗
12And I rejoiced over them all because wisdom leads them; although I didn’t know that she was their mother.↗
13As I learned without guile, I impart without grudging. I don’t hide her riches.↗
14For she is a treasure for men that doesn’t fail, and those who use it obtain friendship with God, commended by the gifts which they present through discipline.↗
15But may God grant that I may speak his judgment, and to conceive thoughts worthy of what has been given me; because he is one who guides even wisdom and who corrects the wise.↗
16For both we and our words are in his hand, with all understanding and skill in various crafts.↗
17For he himself gave me an unerring knowledge of the things that are, to know the structure of the universe and the operation of the elements;↗
18the beginning, end, and middle of times; the alternations of the solstices and the changes of seasons;↗
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