Sir 24:1 

Wisdom shall praise herself, and shall glory in the midst of 

her people. 

Sir 24:2 

In the congregation of the most High shall she open her 

mouth, and triumph before his power. 

Sir 24:3 

I came out of the mouth of the most High, and covered the 

earth as a cloud. 

Sir 24:4 

I dwelt in high places, and my throne is in a cloudy pillar. 

Sir 24:5 

I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the 

bottom of the deep. 

Sir 24:6 

In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every 

people and nation, I got a possession. 

Sir 24:7 

With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall 

I abide? 

Sir 24:8 

So the Creator of all things gave me a commandment, and he 

that made me caused my tabernacle to rest, and said, Let thy 

dwelling be in Jacob, and thine inheritance in Israel. 

Sir 24:9 

He created me from the beginning before the world, and I 

shall never fail. 

Sir 24:10 

In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I 

established in Sion. 

Sir 24:11 

Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest, and in 

Jerusalem was my power. 

Sir 24:12 

And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion 

of the Lord's inheritance. 

Sir 24:13 

I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree 

upon the mountains of Hermon. 

Sir 24:14 

I was exalted like a palm tree in En-gaddi, and as a rose 

plant in Jericho, as a fair olive tree in a pleasant field, and 

grew up as a plane tree by the water. 

Sir 24:15 

I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, and I 

yielded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and 

onyx, and sweet storax, and as the fume of frankincense in the 

tabernacle. 

Sir 24:16 

As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my 

branches are the branches of honour and grace. 

Sir 24:17 

As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour, and my flowers 

are the fruit of honour and riches. 

Sir 24:18 

I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and 

holy hope: I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my 

children which are named of him. 

Sir 24:19 

Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill 

yourselves with my fruits. 

Sir 24:20 

For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance 

than the honeycomb. 

Sir 24:21 

They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me 

shall yet be thirsty. 

Sir 24:22 

He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that 

work by me shall not do amiss. 

Sir 24:23 

All these things are the book of the covenant of the most 

high God, even the law which Moses commanded for an heritage 

unto the congregations of Jacob. 

Sir 24:24 

Faint not to be strong in the Lord; that he may confirm you, 

cleave unto him: for the Lord Almighty is God alone, and beside 

him there is no other Saviour. 

Sir 24:25 

He filleth all things with his wisdom, as Phison and as 

Tigris in the time of the new fruits. 

Sir 24:26 

He maketh the understanding to abound like Euphrates, and as 

Jordan in the time of the harvest. 

Sir 24:27 

He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appear as the light, and 

as Geon in the time of vintage. 

Sir 24:28 

The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last 

find her out. 

Sir 24:29 

For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels 

profounder than the great deep. 

Sir 24:30 

I also came out as a brook from a river, and as a conduit 

into a garden. 

Sir 24:31 

I said, I will water my best garden, and will water 

abundantly my garden bed: and, lo, my brook became a river, and 

my river became a sea. 

Sir 24:32 

I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will 

send forth her light afar off. 

Sir 24:33 

I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and leave it to all 

ages for ever. 

Sir 24:34 

Behold that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all 

them that seek wisdom.