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chapter 8
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She
reacheth therefore from end to end mightily, and ordereth all things sweetly.
2 Her have I loved, and have sought her out from my
youth, and have desired to take her for my spouse, and I became a lover of her
beauty.
3 She glorifieth her nobility by being conversant with
God: yea and the Lord of all things hath loved her.
4 For it is she that teacheth the knowledge of God, and
is the chooser of his works.
5 And if riches be desired in life, what is richer than
wisdom, which maketh all things?
6 And if sense do work: who is a more artful worker
than she of those things that are?
7 And if a man love justice: her labours have great
virtues; for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, anad justice, and
fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in
life.
8 And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth
things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of
speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before
they be done, and the events of times and ages.
9 I purposed therefore to take her to me to live with
me: knowing that she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a
comfort in my cares and grief.
10 For her sake I shall have glory among the multitude,
and honour with the ancients, though I be young:
11 And I shall be found of a quick conceit in judgment,
and shall be admired in the sight of the mighty, and the faces of princes shall
wonder at me.
12 They shall wait for me when I hold my peace, and
they shall look upon me when I speak, and if I talk much they shall lay their
hands on their mouths.
13 Moreover by the means of her I shall have
immortality: and shall leave behind me an everlasting memory to them that come
after me.
14 I shall set the people in order: and nations shall
be subject to me.
15 Terrible kings hearing shall be afraid of me: among
the multitude I shall be found good, and valiant in war.
16 When I go into my house, I shall repose myself with
her: for her conversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness,
but joy and gladness.
17 Thinking these things with myself, and pondering
them in my heart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality,
18 And that there is great delight in her friendship,
and inexhaustible riches in the works of her hands, and in the exercise of
conference with her, wisdom, and glory in the communication of her words: I
went about seeking, that I might take her to myself.
19 And I was a witty child and had received a good
soul.
20 And whereas I was more good, I came to a body
undefiled.
21 And as I knew that I could not otherwise be
continent, except God gave it, and this also was a point of wisdom, to know
whose gift it was: I went to the Lord, and besought him, and said with my whole
heart:
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