For a holy and disciplined spirit will flee from deceit and will leave foolish thoughts behind and will be ashamed at the approach of unrighteousness.

For wisdom is a kindly spirit, but it will not free blasphemers from the guilt of their words, because God is witness of their inmost feelings and a true observer of their hearts and a hearer of their tongues.

Because the spirit of the Lord has filled the world and that which holds all things together knows what is said,

when it is extinguished, the body will turn to ashes, and the spirit will dissolve like empty air.

They will speak to one another in repentance, and in anguish of spirit they will groan,

Respect for Wisdom

Therefore I prayed, and understanding was given me; I called on God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.

the natures of animals and the tempers of wild animals, the powers of spirits and the thoughts of human beings, the varieties of plants and the virtues of roots;

for wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me.

The Nature of Wisdom

There is in her a spirit that is intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, agile, clear, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen,

irresistible, beneficent, humane, steadfast, sure, free from anxiety, all-powerful, overseeing all, and penetrating through all spirits that are intelligent, pure, and altogether subtle.

Who has learned your counsel unless you have given wisdom and sent your holy spirit from on high?

For your immortal spirit is in all things.

because they failed to know the one who formed them and inspired them with active souls and breathed a living spirit into them.

For a human made them, and one whose spirit is borrowed formed them, for none can form gods that are like themselves.

A person in wickedness kills another but cannot bring back the departed spirit or set free the imprisoned soul.