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Wisdom of Solomon 7 📜 📕 ↷
Fashioned in Womb
1 I also certes am a mortal man, like to all, and of the earthly kindred of him that was made first, and in the womb of my mother was I fashioned flesh,📜💬📚
2 the time of ten months was I brought together in blood, of the seed of man, and the delectation of sleep concurring.📜💬📚
3 And I being born received the common air, and fell upon the earth that is made alike, and the first voice like to all men did I put forth weeping.📜💬📚
4 I was nourished in swaddling cloths, and great cares.📜💬📚
5 For none of the kings had other beginning of nativity.📜💬📚
6 There is one entrance therefore into life to all men, and like departure.📜💬📚
How to Find Wisdom
7 For this cause I wished, and understanding was given me: and I invocated, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me:📜💬📚
8 and I preferred her before Kingdoms and thrones, and riches I counted to be nothing in comparison of her.📜💬📚
9 Neither did I compare the precious stone to her: because all gold in comparison of her, is a little sand, and silver in the sight of her shall be esteemed as clay.📜💬📚
10 Above health and beauty did I love her, and purposed to have her for light: because her light can not be extinguished.📜💬📚
Wisdom the Mother of Good Things
11 And all good things came to me together with her, and very much honesty by her hands,📜💬📚
12 and I rejoiced in all: because this wisdom went before me, and I was ignorant that she is the mother of all these.📜💬📚
13 Which I learned without fiction, and do communicate without envy, and her honesty I hid not.📜💬📚
14 For she is an infinite treasure to men: which who so have, are made partakers of the friendship of God commended for the gifts of discipline.📜💬📚
God Directs the Wise
15 And to me God hath given to speak according to my mind, and to presume things worthy of those, that are given me: because he is the guide of wisdom, and the Creator of the wise:📜💬📚
16 For in his hand are both we, & our words, and wisdom, and the knowledge & discipline of works.📜💬📚
17 For he gave me the true knowledge of those things which are: that I may know the disposition of the round world, and the virtues of the elements,📜💬📚
18 the beginning, & end, & midst of times, the permutations of changeable seasons, and consummations of times,📜💬📚
19 the courses of the year, and dispositions of the stars,📜💬📚
20 the natures of beasts, and furies of wild beasts, the force of winds, and the cogitations of men, the differences of plants, and virtues of roots,📜💬📚
21 & whatsoever are hid things and not foreseen, I have learned: for wisdom the worker of all taught me.📜💬📚
22 For in her is the spirit of understanding, holy, only, manifold, subtile, eloquent, moveable, undefiled, sure, sweet, loving, good, sharp, who nothing hindereth well-doing,📜💬📚
23 gentle, benign, stable, certain, secure, having all power, foreseeing all things, and that containeth all spirits: intelligible, clean, subtile.📜💬📚
Wisdom Is Pure
24 For wisdom is more moveable than all moveable things: and reacheth every-where because of her cleanness.📜💬📚
25 For she is a vapour of the power of God, & a certain sincere emanation of the glory of God omnipotent: and therefore no defiled thing cometh unto her.📜💬📚
26 For she is the brightness of eternal light, & the unspotted glass of God's majesty, and the image of his goodness.📜💬📚
27 And whereas she is one, she can do all things: and permanent in her self she reneweth all things, and by nations transporteth herself into holy souls, she maketh the friends of God, and Prophets.📜💬📚
No Evil Overcomes Wisdom
28 For God loveth none, but him that dwelleth with wisdom.📜💬📚
29 For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all disposition of the stars, being compared to light she is found the first.📜💬📚
30 For night suceedeth to it, but malice overcometh not wisdom.📜💬📚
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