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She knows and understands everything, and will guide me intelligently in what I do. Her glory will protect me.
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Then I will judge your people fairly, and be worthy of my father's throne. My actions will be acceptable.
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"Who can ever learn the will of God?
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Human reason is not adequate for the task, and our philosophies tend to mislead us,
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because our mortal bodies weigh our souls down. The body is a temporary structure made of earth, a burden to the active mind.
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All we can do is make guesses about things on earth; we must struggle to learn about things that are close to us. Who, then, can ever hope to understand heavenly things?
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No one has ever learned your will, unless you first gave him Wisdom, and sent your holy spirit down to him.
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In this way people on earth have been set on the right path, have learned what pleases you, and have been kept safe by Wisdom."