Good News Translation
Is knowledge a useful thing to have? Nothing is better than Wisdom, who has given shape to everything that exists.

New Revised Standard Version
And if understanding is effective, who more than she is fashioner of what exists?

Contemporary English Version
Wisdom is more useful than knowledge--she designed everything that is.

New American Bible
And if prudence is at work, who in the world is a better artisan than she?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if sense do work: who is a more artful worker than she of those things that are?

And if sense do work: who is a more artful worker than she of those things that are?

Wisdom 8:4
For it is she that teacheth the knowledge of God and is the chooser of his works.

Wisdom 8:5
And if riches be desired in life, what is richer than wisdom, which maketh all things?

Wisdom 8:7
And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues: for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life.

Wisdom 8:8
And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages.