⁹ Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life;
    give ear and learn wisdom!
¹⁰ Why is it, O Israel, why is it that you are in the land of your enemies,
    that you are growing old in a foreign land,
¹¹ that you are defiled with the dead,
    that you are counted among those in Hades?^(A)
12 You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom.^(B)
13 If you had walked in the way of God,
    you would be living in peace forever.^(C)
14 Learn where there is wisdom,
    where there is strength,
    where there is understanding,
so that you may at the same time discern
    where there is length of days and life,
    where there is light for the eyes and peace.^(D)

³² But the one who knows all things knows her;
    he found her by his understanding.
The one who prepared the earth for all time
    filled it with four-footed creatures;^(A)
33 the one who sends forth the light and it goes,
    he called it, and it obeyed him, trembling;
³⁴ the stars shone in their watches and were glad;
³⁵     he called them, and they said, “Here we are!”
    They shone with gladness for him who made them.^(B)
36 This is our God;
    no other can be compared to him.
³⁷ He found the whole way to knowledge
    and gave her to his servant Jacob
    and to Israel, whom he loved.^(C)
38 Afterward she appeared on earth
    and lived with humankind.^(D)