quieter, gentler means. As women bring forth and nurture life, so does wisdom. Wisdom’s beauty and grace deserves comparison to something equally beautiful and gracious.14 Personify wisdom as a woman, and you have the attention of the young man to whom these words are addressed. You have also connected, in his mind, wisdom and marriage, the goal toward which all young people strove in ancient Israel. Certainly not the least important reason to personify wisdom as a woman is a grammatical one. Unlike