5. And if riches be desired in life, what is richer than wisdom, which maketh all things?
6. And if sense do work: who is a more artful worker than she of those things that are?
7. And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues; for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, anad justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life.
8. And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages.
9. I purposed therefore to take her to me to live with me: knowing that she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a comfort in my cares and grief.
10. For her sake I shall have glory among the multitude, and honour with the ancients, though I be young:
11. And I shall be found of a quick conceit in judgment, and shall be admired in the sight of the mighty, and the faces of princes shall wonder at me.
12. They shall wait for me when I hold my peace, and they shall look upon me when I speak, and if I talk much they shall lay their hands on their mouths.
13. Moreover by the means of her I shall have immortality: and shall leave behind me an everlasting memory to them that come after me.
14. I shall set the people in order: and nations shall be subject to me.
15. Terrible kings hearing shall be afraid of me: among the multitude I shall be found good, and valiant in war.
16. When I go into my house, I shall repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness, but joy and gladness.