1 Wisdom protected Adam, the father of the human race. When he was alone on earth, she kept him from sin
2 and gave him the power to rule everything.
3 But Adam's son Cain was evil, and he rejected Wisdom. Then in his anger, he destroyed himself by killing his brother.
4 When Cain's sin caused a flood, Wisdom came to the rescue, by guiding the good man Noah in that flimsy wooden boat.
5 When nations were frustrated by their own evil plans, Wisdom noticed that Abraham was a good man. So she gave him strength to obey God, though Abraham dearly loved his son Isaac.
6 Wisdom rescued the good man Lot, when the ungodly people of those five cities died in the flames.
7 The evidence of their evil can still be seen—the smoke that keeps rising from the desert, those trees with fruit that never ripens, and the pillar of salt that stands as a witness to Lot's wife, who refused to believe.