13. This I have learned without falsehood and communicate without envy, and her integrity I do not hide.
14. Indeed, she is an infinite treasure chest for men, and those who make use of it, become partakers in the friendship of God, because they are recommended by the gifts of instruction.
15. Yet God has given to me to speak my mind, and to conceive thoughts worthy of those things that are given to me, because he is the leader of wisdom and the repairer of understanding.
16. For in his hand are both we, and our words, and all wisdom, and the works of science, and instruction.
17. For he has given me true knowledge of these things which exist: so as to know the orderly arrangement of the world, and the powers of the elements,
18. the beginning and the end and the midpoint of the seasons, the characteristics of changing things, and the divisions of time,