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⁷Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.
⁸I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
⁹Neither compared I unto her any precious stone, because all gold in respect of her is as a little sand, and silver shall be counted as clay before her.
¹⁰I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light: for the light that cometh from her never goeth out.
¹¹All good things together came to me with her, and innumerable riches in her hands.
¹²And I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom goeth before them: and I knew not that she was the mother of them.
¹³I learned diligently, and do communicate her liberally: I do not hide her riches.
¹⁴For she is a treasure unto men that never faileth: which they that use become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts that come from learning.