8 and here, on your holy mountainin the city where you live,you have commanded me to buildan altar and a temple,just like that sacred templeyou made at the beginning.
9 Wisdom has always been with you.She knows your mighty deeds,and she was therewhen you created the world.Wisdom knows what pleases you,and she knows what is rightaccording to your commands.
10 So from your glorious and holythrone in the heavens,please send Wisdomto work beside me and teach mewhat is pleasing to you.
11 Wisdom will guide mein all that I do,and her glory will guard me,because she knows everything.
12 Then you will approve my actions,and I will rule your peoplewith fairness,which will show that I am worthyto succeed my father as king.
13 No one can know what you,the Lord God,demand of us humans—
14 our reasoning is faulty,and our schemes often fail,