Sirach 6:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ My child, from your youth
    welcome education, and you will continue to discover Wisdom
    until you are gray-haired.
¹⁹ Approach her like one who plows
and one who sows,
        and wait for her good fruits.
    When cultivating her,
    you will labor a little,
        but you will eat her produce soon.
²⁰ Wisdom is rugged terrain
to the uneducated,
    and the fainthearted
    won’t persevere with her.