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2 I loved her, and sought her out from my youth, I desired to make her my spouse, and I was a lover of
her beauty.
3 In that she is conversant with God, she magnifieth her nobility: yea, the Lord of all things himself
loved her.
5 If riches be a possession to be desired in this life; what is richer than wisdom, that worketh all things?
7 And if a man love righteousness her labours are virtues: for she teacheth temperance and prudence, justice
and fortitude: which are such things, as en can have nothing more profitable in their life.
8 If a man desire much experience, she knoweth things of old, and conjectureth aright what is to come:
she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and can expound dark sentences: she foreseeth signs and wonders,
and the events of seasons and times.
9 Therefore I purposed to take her to me to live with me, knowing that she would be a counsellor of good
things, and a comfort in cares and grief.
10 For her sake I shall have estimation among the multitude, and honour with the elders, though I be young.
12 When I hold my tongue, they shall bide my leisure, and when I speak, they shall give good ear unto me:
if I talk much, they shall lay their hands upon their mouth.
13 Moreover by the means of her I shall obtain immortality, and leave behind me an everlasting memorial
to them that come after me.
15 Horrible tyrants shall be afraid, when they do but hear of me; I shall be found good among the multitude,
and valiant in war.
16 After I am come into mine house, I will repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness;
and to live with her hath no sorrow, but mirth and joy.
17 Now when I considered these things in myself, and pondered them in my heart, how that to be allied unto
wisdom is immortality;