I am your servant. Give me insight, so that I can understand ¹  your rules.

Your rules remain just. ¹  Give me insight so that I can live. ² 

For her ¹  benefit ²  is more profitable ³  than silver, and her ⁴  gain ⁵  is better ⁶  than gold.

and I saw among the naive – I discerned among the youths ¹  – a young man ²  who lacked wisdom. ³ 

At the top ¹  of the elevated places along the way, at the intersection ²  of the paths she takes her stand;

I walk in the path of righteousness, in the pathway of justice,

The Lord created ¹  me as the beginning ²  of his works, ³  before his deeds of long ago.

From eternity I was appointed, ¹  from the beginning, from before the world existed. ² 

For the one who finds me finds ¹  life and receives ²  favor from the Lord.

The one who wanders ¹  from the way of wisdom ²  will end up ³  in the company of the departed. ⁴ 

Give me your heart, my son, ¹  and let your eyes observe my ways;

Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people. ¹ 

For this reason ¹  I kneel ²  before the Father, ³ 

Think about what I am saying and ¹  the Lord will give you understanding of all this. ² 

So I thought to myself, “The fate of the fool will happen even to me! ¹  Then what did I gain by becoming so excessively ²  wise?” ³  So I lamented to myself, ⁴  “The benefits of wisdom ⁵  are ultimately ⁶  meaningless!”

Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet ¹  he will be master over all the fruit of ²  my labor ³  for which I worked so wisely ⁴  on earth! ⁵  This also is futile!

The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; ¹  Pharaoh’s wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?” ² 

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is an eternal God, the creator of the whole earth. ¹  He does not get tired or weary; there is no limit to his wisdom. ² 

“I, the Lord, promise ¹  that a new time will certainly come ²  when I will raise up for them a righteous branch, ³  a descendant of David. He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding ⁴  and will do what is just and right in the land. ⁵ 

You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. ¹  You see everything people do. ²  You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do. ³