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Wisdom[a] guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, who was created alone,
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and gave him strength to rule over all things.
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But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger,
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When for his cause the earth was drowning with a flood,
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Moreover, when nations consenting together in wickedness had been confounded, wisdom[b] knew the righteous man, and preserved him blameless to God,
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While the ungodly were perishing, wisdom[c] delivered a righteous man,
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To whose wickedness a smoking waste still witnesses,
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For having passed wisdom by,
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but wisdom delivered those who waited on her out of troubles.
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When a righteous man was a fugitive from a brother’s wrath,[d] wisdom guided him in straight paths.
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When in their covetousness men dealt harshly with him,
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She guarded him from enemies,
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When a righteous man was sold,[e] wisdom didn’t forsake him,
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and in bonds she didn’t depart from him,
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Wisdom[f] delivered a holy people and a blameless seed from a nation of oppressors.
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She entered into the soul of a servant of the Lord,
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She rendered to holy men a reward of their toils.
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She brought them over the Red sea,
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but she drowned their enemies,
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Therefore the righteous plundered the ungodly,
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because wisdom opened the mouth of the mute,