For this cause I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and there came to me a spirit of wisdom.
⛓ Read Wisdom of Solomon 7 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'I prayed, and understanding was given me; I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.' This deuterocanonical reworking of Solomon's prayer closely matches James's pattern of asking and receiving wisdom from God.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I prayed, and understanding was given me; I called, and the spirit of wisdom came to me' (deuterocanonical) closely parallels praying for 'a spirit of wisdom' to know God. Thematic coherence is strong and the Wisdom tradition was available in Greek-speaking Judaism; medium because it is a parallel within a shared milieu rather than a citation.
Medium confidence