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10 Beyond health and beauty I loved her,
And I chose to have her rather than the light,
    because her radiance never ceases.(A)
11 Yet all good things together came to me with her,(B)
    and countless riches at her hands;
12 I rejoiced in them all, because Wisdom is their leader,
    though I had not known that she is their mother.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:12 Mother: lit., “she who begets.” Although Wisdom herself is begotten of God (Prv 8:22–24), she is here the one who brings into being.