14. For she is an infinite treasure to men! which they that use, become the friends of God, being commended for the gift of discipline.
15. And God hath given to me to speak as I would, and to conceive thoughts worthy of those things that are given me: because he is the guide of wisdom, and the director of the wise:
16. For in his hand are both we, and our words, and all wisdom, and the knowledge and skill of works.
17. For he hath given me the true knowledge of the things that are: to know the disposition of the whole world, and the virtues of the elements,
18. The beginning, and ending, and midst of the times, the alterations of their courses, and the changes of seasons,
19. The revolutions of the year, and the dispositions of the stars,
20. The natures of living creatures, and rage of wild beasts, the force of winds, and reasonings of men, the diversities of plants, and the virtues of roots,
21. And all such things as are hid and not foreseen, I have learned: for wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me.
22. For in her is the spirit of understanding: holy, one, manifold, subtile, eloquent, active, undefiled, sure, sweet, loving that which is good, quick, which nothing hindereth, beneficent,
23. Gentle, kind, steadfast, assured, secure, having all power, overseeing all things, and containing all spirits, intelligible, pure, subtile.
24. For wisdom is more active than all active things: and reacheth everywhere by reason of her purity.
25. For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure emanation of the glory of the almighty God: and therefore no defiled thing cometh into her.
26. For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God's majesty, and the image of his goodness.
27. And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself the same, she reneweth all things, and through nations conveyeth herself into holy souls, she maketh the friends of God and prophets.
28. For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
29. For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of the stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.
30. For after this cometh night, but no evil can overcome wisdom.