6. She freed this just man from the destruction of the impious, fleeing descending fire in the Five Cities,
7. which, as a testimony to their wickedness, is a constantly smoking desolate land, and the trees bear fruit at uncertain times, and a figure of salt stands as a monument to an unbelieving soul.
8. For, in disregarding wisdom, they are fallen, not so much in this, that they were ignorant of good, but that they bequeathed to men a memorial of their foolishness, so that, in the things in which they sinned, they were unable to escape notice.
9. Yet wisdom has freed from sorrow those who are self-observant.
10. She led the just man, this fugitive of his brother's wrath, by the right ways, and revealed to him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of holiness, honored him in his labors, and completed his labors.
11. In the midst of encircling deceit, she flowed around him and made him honest.
12. She guarded him from his enemies, and she defended him from seducers, and she gave him a strong conflict so that he might overcome and might know that the power of all things is wisdom.
13. She did not abandon the just man when he was sold, but freed him from sinners; she went down with him into the pit,