Wisdom of Solomon 7
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1I My self am also mortal and a man like all other, and am come of him that was first made of the earth. 2And in my mothers wombe was I facioned to be flesh in ten moneths: I was broght together into blood of the sede of man, and by the pleasure that cometh with slepe. 3And when I was borne, I receiued the commune aire, and fel vpon the earth, which is of like nature, crying & weping at the first as all other do. 4I was nourished in swadling clothes, and with cares. 5For there is no King that had anie other beginning of birth. 6All men then haue one entrance vnto life, and a like going out. 7Wherefore I praied, and vnderstanding was giuen me: I called & the Spirit of wisdome came vnto me. 8I preferred her to scepters and thrones, & counted riches nothing in comparison of her. 9Nether did I compare precious stones vnto her: for all golde is but a litle grauel in respect of her, and siluer shalbe counted but clay before her. 10I loued her aboue health and beautie, & purposed to take her for my light: for her light can not be quenched. 11All good things therefore came to me together with her, and innumerable riches thorow her hands. 12So I was glad in all: for wisdome was the autor thereof, & I knewe not that she was the mother of these things. 13And I learned vnfainedly, & communicated without enuie, and I do not hide her riches. 14For she is an infinite treasure vnto men, which whoso vse, become partakers of the loue of God, & are accepted for the gifts of knowledge. 15God hathe granted me to speake according to my minde, and to iudge worthely of the things, that are giuen me: for he is the leader vnto wisdome, and the directer of the wise. 16For in his hand are bothe we and our wordes, and all wisdome, & the knowledge of the workes. 17For he hathe giuen me the true knowledge of the things that are, so that I knowe how the worlde was made, and the powers of the elements, 18The beginning and the end, & the middes of the times: how the times alter, and the change of the seasons, 19The course of the yere, the situacion of the starres, 20The nature of liuing things, and the furiousnes of beasts, the power of the windes, and the imaginacions of men, the diuersities of plants, and the vertues of rootes. 22For in her is the spirit of vnderstanding, which is holie, the onely begotten, manifolde, subtil, moueable, cleare, vndefiled, euident, not hurtful, louing the good, sharpe, which can not be letted, doing good, 23Courteous, stable, sure, without care, hauing all power, circumspect in all things, and passing through all, intellectual, pure and subtil spirits. 24For wisdome is nimbler then all nimble things: she goeth thorow and atteineth to all things, because of her purenes. 25For she is the breth of the power of God, and a pure influence that floweth from the glorie of the Almightie: therefore can no defiled thing come vnto her. 26For she is the brightnes of the euerlasting light, the vndefiled mirroure of the maiestie of God, and the image of his goodnes. 27And being one, she can do all things, and remaining in her self, renueth all, and according to the ages she entreth into the holie soules, and maketh them the friends of God and Prophetes. 28For God loueth none, if he dwell not with wisdome. 29For she is more beautiful then the sunne, and is aboue all the order of the starres, and the light is not to be compared vnto her. 30For night cometh vpon it, but wickednes can not ouercome wisdome.