13 If you had followed the ways of God, you would have lived in peace forever.
14 Learn where wisdom, strength, and knowledge come from. Then you will know how to have a long and peaceful life, and you will find light to guide you.
15 No one knows where Wisdom lives or where she keeps her treasures.
16 People have tried hard to find her, including rulers of nations, people who tamed wild animals
17 and raised birds, greedy people who did anything to get more of the silver and gold they believed would protect them,
18 and selfish people who worried about not having enough money and thought of ways to make more. But all of these people have disappeared—they died
19 and went to the world below, and others have taken their place.