Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

The saying contrasts the frailty of the physical body—received through human generation—with the inner strength attributed to a divine gift of soul. Its moral thrust is exhortative: because bodily weakness is inevitable, wisdom consists in actively using one’s God-given resolve (will, steadfastness, self-command). Happiness is presented not as luck or comfort but as the consequence of practiced wisdom: to “be wise” is to live in accordance with that inner resolution, mastering fear and appetite rather than being mastered by the body’s limitations. The language and cadence resemble later devotional and moralizing traditions more than securely attested pharaonic Egyptian texts.