[6] In this passage Wisdom is represented saying-- "I from the mouth of the Highest came forth, and as vapour I veiled the earth; I in the heights pitched my tent, my throne in a pillar of cloud; I alone circled the ring of heaven, and walked in the depths of abysses; In the waves of the sea, and in all the earth, and in every people and race I obtained a possession; With all these I sought a rest (saying), In whose inheritance shall I settle? Then came to me the command of the Creator of all; my Creator pitched my tent; and He said, In Jacob pitch thy tent, in Israel find thine inheritance. Before the world was, in the beginning He created me, and while the world lasts I shall not fail: In the holy tent before Him I offered service, and thus in Sion I was planted; In the beloved city He likewise made me rest, and in Israel is my power; And I took root in a people that is glorified, in a portion of the Lord His inheritance."--ECCLES. xxiv. 3. [7] Prov. xiv. 27. [8] It may be well to remind the reader who is too familiar with the name "the Lord" to consider its significance; that "the Lord" is the English translation of that peculiar name, Jahveh, by which God revealed Himself to Moses, and the term Jahveh seems to convey one of two ideas, existence or the cause of existence, according to the vowel-pointing of the consonants יהוה. [9] Eccles. i. 6, 8. II. _WISDOM AS THE GUIDE OF CONDUCT._ "To deliver thee from the way of the evil man.... To deliver thee from the strange woman." --PROV. ii. 12_a_-16_a_. Wisdom is concerned, as we have seen, with the whole universe of fact, with the whole range of thought; she surveys and orders all processes of nature. We might say of her, "She doth preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens by her are fresh and strong." But while she is occupied in these high things, she is no less attentive to the affairs of human life, and her delight is to order human conduct, not despising even the smallest detail of that which is done by men under the sun. Side by side with physical laws, indeed often intertwined with them, appear the moral laws which issue from the lively oracles of Wisdom. There is not one authority for natural phenomena, and another for mental and moral phenomena. As we should say now, Truth is one: Science is one: Law is one. The laws of the physical order, the laws of the speculative reason, the laws of practical life, form a single system, come from the sole mind of God, and are the impartial interests of Wisdom.