⁷³ <JOD> Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.

¹⁴ I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

¹⁵ My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

⁸ The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.

¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.

¹⁶⁹ <TAU> Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me wisdom in keeping with your word.

¹⁴⁴ The righteousness of your unchanging word is eternal; give me wisdom so that I may have life.

¹²⁵ I am your servant; give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your unchanging word.

³ Be certain that the Lord is God; it is he who has made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep to whom he gives food.

¹⁵ Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

²⁰ And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.

⁷ Give thought to what I say; for the Lord will give you wisdom in all things.

³⁴ Give me wisdom, so that I may keep your law; going after it with all my heart.

⁸ But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge.

⁸ Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

⁹ O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

¹⁰ Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?

¹¹ By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.

¹² And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

¹² Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of his orders for Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.