⁸‘Then the Creator of all things gave me a command,
   and my Creator chose the place for my tent.
He said, “Make your dwelling in Jacob,
   and in Israel receive your inheritance.”
⁹Before the ages, in the beginning, he created me,
   and for all the ages I shall not cease to be.
¹⁰In the holy tent I ministered before him,
   and so I was established in Zion.
¹¹Thus in the beloved city he gave me a resting-place,
   and in Jerusalem was my domain.
¹²I took root in an honoured people,
   in the portion of the Lord, his heritage.

¹³‘I grew tall like a cedar in Lebanon,
   and like a cypress on the heights of Hermon.
¹⁴I grew tall like a palm tree in En-gedi,^*
   and like rose-bushes in Jericho;
like a fair olive tree in the field,
   and like a plane tree beside water^* I grew tall.
¹⁵Like cassia and camel’s thorn I gave forth perfume,
   and like choice myrrh I spread my fragrance,
like galbanum, onycha, and stacte,
   and like the odour of incense in the tent.
¹⁶Like a terebinth I spread out my branches,
   and my branches are glorious and graceful.
¹⁷Like the vine I bud forth delights,
   and my blossoms become glorious and abundant fruit.^*

¹⁹‘Come to me, you who desire me,
   and eat your fill of my fruits.
²⁰For the memory of me is sweeter than honey,
   and the possession of me sweeter than the honeycomb.
²¹Those who eat of me will hunger for more,
   and those who drink of me will thirst for more.
²²Whoever obeys me will not be put to shame,
   and those who work with me will not sin.’

Wisdom and the Law

²³All this is the book of the covenant of the Most High God,
   the law that Moses commanded us
   as an inheritance for the congregations of Jacob.^*