3:14 Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding;
that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is
the light of the eyes, and peace.
3:15 Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures?
3:16 Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as ruled the
beasts upon the earth;
3:17 They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they
that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of
their getting?
3:18 For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose
works are unsearchable,
3:19 They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come
up in their steads.
3:20 Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way
of knowledge have they not known,
3:21 Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their
children were far off from that way.
3:22 It hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in
Theman.
3:23 The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of Meran
and of Theman, the authors of fables, and searchers out of
understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remember
her paths.
3:24 O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the
place of his possession!
3:25 Great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable.
3:26 There were the giants famous from the beginning, that were of so
great stature, and so expert in war.
3:27 Those did not the Lord choose, neither gave he the way of
knowledge unto them:
3:28 But they were destroyed, because they had no wisdom, and perished
through their own foolishness.
3:29 Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down
from the clouds?
3:30 Who hath gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for
pure gold?
3:31 No man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path.
3:32 But he that knoweth all things knoweth her, and hath found her out
with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore hath
filled it with fourfooted beasts:
3:33 He that sendeth forth light, and it goeth, calleth it again, and
it obeyeth him with fear.
3:34 The stars shined in their watches, and rejoiced: when he calleth
them, they say, Here we be; and so with cheerfulness they shewed light
unto him that made them.
3:35 This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of in
comparison of him
3:36 He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto
Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.
3:37 Afterward did he shew himself upon earth, and conversed with men.
4:1 This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that
endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such
as leave it shall die.
4:2 Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of
the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.
4:3 Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are
profitable unto thee to a strange nation.
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