1Wisedome shall praise her selfe, and be honoured in God, and reioyce in the middes of her people. 2In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power. 3In the middes of her people shall she be exalted, and wondred at in the holy assembly. 4In the multitude of the chosen shee shall bee commended, and among such as be blessed, she shal be praysed, and shall say, 5I am come out of the mouth of the most High, first borne before all creatures. 6I caused the light that fayleth not, to arise in the heauen, and couered the earth as a cloude. 7My dwelling is aboue in the height, and my throne is in the pillar of the cloude. 8I alone haue gone round about the compasse of heauen, and haue walked in the bottom of the depth. 9I possessed the waues of the sea, and all the earth, and all people, and nation, and with my power haue I troden downe the heartes of al, both high and low. 10In all these things I sought rest, and a dwelling in some inheritance. 11So the creator of all thinges gaue me a commandement, and he that made me, appointed me a tabernacle, and said, Let thy dwelling be in Iacob, and take thine inheritance in Israel, and roote thy selfe among my chosen. 12He created me from the beginning, & before the world, and I shall neuer faile: In the holy habitation haue I serued before him, and so was I stablished in Sion. 13In the welbeloued citie gaue he me rest, & in Ierusalem was my power. 14I tooke roote in an honourable people, euen in the portion of the Lordes inheritance. 15I am set vp on hie like a cedar in Libanus, & as a cypres tree vpon the mountaines of Hermon. 16I am exalted like a palme tree about the bankes, and as a rose plant in Iericho, as a faire oliue tree in a pleasant fielde, and am exalted as a plane tree by the water. 17I smelled as the cinnamum, and as a bag of spices: I gaue a sweete odour as the best mirrhe, as galbanum, and onix, and sweete storax, & perfume of incense in an house. 18As the terebinth, haue I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honor and grace. 19As the vine haue I brought forth fruite of sweete sauour, and my flowers are the fruite of honour and riches. 20I am the mother of beautifull loue, and of feare, and of knowledge, and of holy hope: I giue eternall things to all my children to whome God hath commanded. 21In me is all grace of life and trueth: in mee is all hope of life and vertue. 22Come vnto me al ye that be desirous of me, and fill your selues with my fruites. 23For the remembrance of mee is, sweeter then honie, and mine inheritance sweeter then the hony combe: the remebrance of me endureth for euermore. 24They that eate me, shall haue the more hunger, and they that drinke me, shall thirst the more. 25Who so hearkeneth vnto me, shal not come to confusion, and they that worke by me, shall not offende: they that make me to be knowen, shall haue euerlasting life. 26All these thinges are the booke of life, and the couenant of the most high God, & the knowledge of the trueth, and the Law that Moyses in the precepts of righteousnes commaunded for an heritage vnto the house of Iacob, and the promises pertayning vnto Israel. 27Be not wearie to behaue your selues valiantly with the Lord, that hee may also confirme you: cleaue vnto him: for the Lord almightie is but one God, and besides him there is none other Sauiour. 28Out of Dauid his seruant hee ordeyned to raise vp a most mightie King that should sitte in the throne of honour for euermore. 29Hee filleth all things with his wisedome, as Physon, and as Tygris, in the time of the newe fruites. 30Hee maketh the vnderstanding to abounde like Euphrates, and as Iorden, in the time of the haruest. 31He maketh the doctrine of knowledge to appeare as the light, and ouerfloweth as Geon in the time of the vintage. 32The first man hath not knowen her perfectly: no more shall the last seeke her out. 33For her considerations are more aboundant then the sea, and her counsell is profounder then the great deepe. 34I wisdome haue cast out floodes: I am as an arme of the riuer: I runne into Paradise as a water conduite. 35I sayd, I will water my faire garden, and will water my pleasant ground: and loe, my ditch became a flood, and my flood became a sea. 36For I make doctrine to shine as the light of the morning, and I lighten it for euer. 37I wil pearce thorow all the lower partes of the earth: I will looke vpon all such as be a sleepe, and lighten all them that trust in the Lord. 38I will yet powre out doctrine, as prophesie, and leaue it vnto all ages for euer. 39Beholde that I haue not laboured for my selfe onely, but for all them that seeke wisdome.