11. I shall become keen in judgment,and shall be a marvel before rulers.
12. They will wait while I am silent and listen when I speak;and when I shall speak the more,they will put their hands upon their mouths.
13. Because of her I shall have immortalityand leave to those after me an everlasting memory.
14. I shall govern peoples, and nations will be my subjects—
15. tyrannical princes, hearing of me, will be afraid;in the assembly I shall appear noble, and in war courageous.
16. Entering my house, I shall take my repose beside her;For association with her involves no bitternessand living with her no grief,but rather joy and gladness.
17. Reflecting on these things,and considering in my heartThat immortality lies in kinship with Wisdom,
18. great delight in love of her,and unfailing riches in the works of her hands;And that in associating with her there is prudence,and fair renown in sharing her discourses,I went about seeking to take her for my own.
19. Now, I was a well-favored child,and I came by a noble nature;
20. or rather, being noble, I attained an unblemished body.
21. And knowing that I could not otherwise possess her unless God gave it—and this, too, was prudence, to know whose gift she is—I went to the Lord and besought him,and said with all my heart: