Happy the one who is intent on wisdom and who can reply to those who question him;
who makes his own the ways of wisdom and meditates on her secrets;
who pursues her like a hunter, lies in wait by her paths,
peeps in at her windows and listens at her doors;
he sets up camp near her house, fixing his stakes in her walls.
He places his tent in the hands of wisdom; he stays in a happy lodging.
He places his sons beneath her protection and finds shelter beneath her branches.
He is shaded by her from the heat and makes his camp in her glory.
Sirach 14:20-27