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Learn where there is wisdom, where there is strength, where there is understanding, so that you may at the same time discern where there is length of days, and life, where there is light for the eyes, and peace.
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Who has found her place? And who has entered her storehouses?
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Where are the rulers of the nations, and those who lorded it over the animals on earth;
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those who made sport of the birds of the air, and who hoarded up silver and gold in which people trust, and there is no end to their getting;
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those who schemed to get silver, and were anxious, but there is no trace of their works?
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They have vanished and gone down to Hades, and others have arisen in their place.
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Later generations have seen the light of day, and have lived upon the earth; but they have not learned the way to knowledge, nor understood her paths, nor laid hold of her.
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Their descendants have strayed far from her way.
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She has not been heard of in Canaan, or seen in Teman;
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the descendants of Hagar, who seek for understanding on the earth, the merchants of Merran and Teman, the story-tellers and the seekers for understanding, have not learned the way to wisdom, or given thought to her paths.
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O Israel, how great is the house of God, how vast the territory that he possesses!