7:4 I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and that with cares.
7:5 For there is no king that had any other beginning of birth.
7:6 For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
7:7 Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.
7:8 I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
7:9 Neither 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.
7:10 I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light: for the light that cometh from her never goeth out.
7:11 All good things together came to me with her, and innumerable riches in her hands.
7:12 And I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom goeth before them: and I knew not that she was the mother of them.
7:13 I learned diligently, and do communicate her liberally: I do not hide her riches.