Wisdom 9
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| 1 | O God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things with thy word, |
| 2 | And ordained man through thy wisedome, that he should haue dominion ouer the creatures, which thou hast made, |
| 3 | And order the world according to equitie and righteousnesse, and execute iudgement with an vpright heart: |
| 4 | Giue me wisedome that sitteth by thy Throne, and reiect me not from among thy children: |
| 5 | For I thy seruant and sonne of thine handmaide, am a feeble person, and of a short time, and too young for the vnderstanding of iudgement and lawes. |
| 6 | For though a man be neuer so perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisedome be not with him, hee shall be nothing regarded. |
| 7 | Thou hast chosen me to be a king of thy people, and a Iudge of thy sons and daughters: |
| 8 | Thou hast commaunded me to build a Temple vpon thy holy mount, and an Altar in the city wherein thou dwellest, a resemblance of the holy Tabernacle which thou hast prepared from the beginning: |
| 9 | And wisedome was with thee: which knoweth thy workes, and was present when thou madest the world, and knew what was acceptable in thy sight, and right in thy Commaundements. |
| 10 | O send her out of thy holy heauens, and from the Throne of thy glory, that being present shee may labour with mee, that I may know what is pleasing vnto thee. |
| 11 | For she knoweth and vnderstandeth all things, and shee shall leade me soberly in my doings, and preserue me in her power. |
| 12 | So shall my workes be acceptable, and then shall I iudge thy people righteously, and be worthy to sit in my fathers seate. |
| 13 | For what man is hee that can know the counsell of God? or who can thinke what the will of the Lord is? |
| 14 | For the thoughts of mortall men are miserable, and our deuices are but vncertaine. |
| 15 | For the corruptible body presseth downe the soule, and the earthy tabernacle weigheth downe the minde that museth vpon many things. |
| 16 | And hardly doe we gesse aright at things that are vpon earth, and with labour doe wee find the things that are before vs: but the things that are in heauen, who hath searched out? |
| 17 | And thy counsell who hath knowen, except thou giue wisedome, and send thy holy spirit from aboue? |
| 18 | For so the wayes of them which liued on the earth were reformed, and men were taught the things that are pleasing vnto thee, and were saued through wisedome. |
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