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and said to me, "Your understanding has utterly failed regarding this world, and do you think you can comprehend the way of the Most High?"
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Then I said, "Yes, my lord." And he replied to me, "I have been sent to show you three ways, and to put before you three problems.
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If you can solve one of them for me, I also will show you the way you desire to see, and will teach you why the heart is evil."
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I said, "Speak on, my lord." And he said to me, "Go, weigh for me the weight of fire, or measure for me a measure of wind, or call back for me the day that is past."
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I answered and said, "Who of those that have been born can do this, that you ask me concerning these things?"
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.