Wisdom 8:20-21
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
20 or rather, being noble, I attained an unblemished body.
21 And knowing that I could not otherwise possess her unless God gave it—
and this, too, was prudence, to know whose gift she is—
I went to the Lord and besought him,(A)
and said with all my heart:
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