Good News Translation
I had a pleasant personality even as a child. I had been fortunate enough to receive a good soul, or rather, I was given a sound body to live in because I was already good.

New Revised Standard Version
As a child I was naturally gifted, and a good soul fell to my lot;

Contemporary English Version
I was an intelligent child, born with a good soul--

New American Bible
Now, I was a well-favored child, and I came by a noble nature;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I was a witty child, and had received a good soul.

And I was a witty child, and had received a good soul.

Wisdom 8:17
Thinking these things with myself, and pondering them in my heart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality,

Wisdom 8:18
And that there is great delight in her friendship, and inexhaustible riches in the works of her hands, and in the exercise of conference with her, wisdom, and glory in the communication of her words: I went about seeking, that I might take her to myself.

Wisdom 8:20
And whereas I was more good, I came to a body undefiled.

Wisdom 8:21
And as I knew that I could not otherwise be continent, except God gave it, and this also was a point of wisdom, to know whose gift it was, I went to the Lord, and besought him, and said with my whole heart: