⁸ Happy are your wives, happy are these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.

³⁴ Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

⁷ Happy are your wives and happy these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.

⁸ Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be their judge in righteousness.

¹³ Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.

¹⁴ For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold.

²¹ The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.

²⁰ Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

³⁹ And she had a sister, by name Mary, who took her seat at the Lord's feet and gave attention to his words.

⁴⁰ But Martha had her hands full of the work of the house, and she came to him and said, Lord, is it nothing to you that my sister has let me do all the work? Say to her that she is to give me some help.

⁴¹ But the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things:

⁴² Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

²⁸ But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

³¹ The queen of the South will come up on the day of judging and give her decision against the men of this generation: for she came from the ends of the earth to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon; and now something greater than Solomon is here.