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

⁹ Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement.

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.

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

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

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.

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

³ Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;

¹⁰ For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

¹¹ The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

¹² O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.

⁴ One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

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

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