Kebra Nagast

And place wherein it hath set itself without wisdom. without wisdom that which the tongue speaketh is not Wisdom is the best of all treasures. He acceptable. who heapeth up gold and silver doeth so to no profit without wisdom, but he who heapeth up wisdom no man can filch it from his heart. That which fools heap up the wise consume. And because of the wickedness and of those who do evil the righteous are praised ; because of the wicked acts of fools the wise are beloved. Wisdom is an exalted thing and a rich thing I will love her like a mother, and she shall embrace me like her I will follow the footprints of wisdom and she child. shall protect me for ever ; I will seek after wisdom, and she shall be with me for ever ; I will follow her footI will lean upon prints, and she shall not cast me away ; : her, and she shall be unto me a wall of adamant ; I will seek asylum with her, and she shall be unto me power and strength ; I will rejoice in her, and she shall be unto me abundant grace. For it is right for us to follow the footprints of wisdom, and for the soles of our feet to stand upon the threshold of the gates of wisdom. Let us seek her, and we shall find her let us love her, and let us pursue she will not withdraw herself from us let us ask, and we shall her, and we shall overtake her receive ; and let us turn our hearts to her so that we ; ; ; If [we] remember her, she will have us in remembrance ; and in connection with fools thou shalt not remember wisdom, for they do not hold her in honour, and she doth not love them. The honouring of wisdom is the honouring of the wise man, and the Love loving of wisdom is the loving of the wise man. the wise man and withdraw not thyself from him, and by the sight of him thou shalt become wise hearken to the utterance of his mouth, so that thou mayest become watch the place whereon he hath set his like unto him foot, and leave him not, so that thou mayest receive the remainder of his wisdom. And I love him merely on may never forget her. ; ; 22