CHAPTER 1. 1 Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in simplicity of heart. 2 For he is…

CHAPTER 2. 1 For they have said, reasoning with themselves, but not right: The time of our life is short and tedious, and in the end of a man there…

CHAPTER 3. 1 But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them. 2 In the sight of the…

CHAPTER 4. 1 O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men. 2 When…

CHAPTER 5. 1 Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them, and taken away their labours. 2 These seeing it, shall be troubled with…

CHAPTER 6. 1 Wisdom is better than strength, and a wise man is better than a strong man. 2 Hear therefore, ye kings, and understand: learn, ye that are judges…

CHAPTER 7. 1 I myself also am a mortal man, like all others, and of the race of him, that was first made of the earth, and in the womb…

CHAPTER 8. 1 She reacheth therefore from end to end mightily, and ordereth all things sweetly. 2 Her have I loved, and have sought her out from my youth, and…

CHAPTER 9. 1 God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things with thy word, 2 And by thy wisdom hast appointed man, that he should…

CHAPTER 10. 1 She preseved him, that was first formed by God the father of the world, when he was created alone, 2 And she brought him out of his…