Catholic Public Domain Version

Wisdom 7:24-30 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

24. For wisdom is more active than all active things, yet she reaches everywhere because of her purity.

25. For she is a breath of the virtue of God and a genuine emanation from the purity of the almighty God, and therefore nothing unclean can invade her.

26. Indeed, she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of the majesty of God, and the image of his goodness.

27. And though she is one, she can do all things; and, unchanging in herself, she renews all things, and throughout the nations she conveys herself to holy souls, establishing them as friends and prophets of God.

28. For God loves none but those who dwell with wisdom.

29. For she is more spectacular than the sun, and above the array of all the stars; compared with the light, she is found to be before it.

30. Indeed, after her comes night, but wisdom will not be overcome by malice.