Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, that was created alone,

2 And gave him strength to get dominion over all things.

3 But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger,

4 And when for his cause the earth was drowning with a flood,

5 Moreover, when nations consenting together in wickedness had been confounded,

6 While the ungodly were perishing, wisdom delivered a righteous man,

7 To whose wickedness a smoking waste still witnesseth,

8 For having passed wisdom by,

9 But wisdom delivered out of troubles those that waited on her.

10 When a righteous man was a fugitive from a brother’s wrath, wisdom guided him in straight paths;

11 When in their covetousness men dealt hardly with him,

12 She guarded him from enemies,

13 When a righteous man was sold, wisdom forsook him not,

14 And in bonds she left him not,

15 Wisdom delivered a holy people and a blameless seed from a nation of oppressors.

16 She entered into the soul of a servant of the Lord,

17 She rendered unto holy men a reward of their toils;

18 She brought them over the Red Sea,

19 But their enemies she drowned,

20 Therefore the righteous plundered the ungodly;

21 Because wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb,