11. I will praise your name continually, And will sing praise with thanksgiving; And my supplication was heard:
12. For you saved me from destruction, And delivered me from the evil time: Therefore will I give thanks and praise to you, And bless the name of the Lord.
13. When I was yet young, Or ever I went abroad, I sought wisdom openly in my prayer.
14. Before the temple I asked for her, And I will seek her out even to the end.
15. From her flower as from the ripening grape my heart delighted in her: My foot trod in uprightness, From my youth I tracked her out.
16. I bowed down mine ear a little, and received her, And found for myself much instruction.
17. I profited in her: To him that gives me wisdom I will give glory.
18. For I purposed to practice her, And I was zealous for that which is good; And I shall never be put to shame.
19. My soul has wrestled in her, And in my doing I was exact: I spread forth my hands to the heaven above, And bewailed my ignorances of her.
20. I set my soul aright to her, And in pureness I found her. I got me a heart joined with her from the beginning: Therefore shall I not be forsaken.
21. My inward part also was troubled to seek her: Therefore I have gotten a good possession.
22. The Lord gave me a tongue for my reward; And I will praise him therewith.
23. Draw near to me, you⌃ unlearned, And lodge in the house of instruction.