17 For the very true beginning of her is the desire of discipline; and the care of discipline is love;
18 and love is the keeping of her laws; and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption;
19 and incorruption maketh us near unto God:
20 therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom.
21 If your delight be then in thrones and scepters, O ye kings of the people, honor wisdom, that ye may reign for evermore.
22 As for wisdom, what she is, and how she came up, I will tell you, and will not hide mysteries from you: but will seek her out from the beginning of her nativity, and bring the knowledge of her into light, and will not pass over the truth.
23 Neither will I go with consuming envy; for such a man shall have no fellowship with wisdom.