Sirach 24:16-26

16 Like a terebinth oak I spread out my branches, and my branches were glorious and graceful.
17 Gracious favor was the leaf that I put forth like a vine, and honor and wealth were the fruit that my blossoms bore.
19 "Come to me, you who desire me, and take your fill of my produce.
20 Calling me to mind is sweeter than honey, and possessing me is better than a dripping honeycomb.
21 Those who eat of me will hunger for more, and those who drink of me will thirst for more.
22 Whoever obeys me won't be ashamed, and those who work with me won't sin."

Wisdom and the Law

23 All these things are in the covenant scroll of the Most High God, the Law that Moses commanded us, the inheritance of the congregations of Jacob.
25 God supplies Wisdom comparable to the fullness of the Pishon River, even like the Tigris River in the springtime.
26 God provides understanding as deep as the Euphrates, or like the Jordan at the time of the harvest.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. LXXb adds 24:18 I am the mother of beautiful love, of awe, of knowledge, and of devout hope, and I grant them, together with all things, to my children eternally generated gifts, to those whom God chooses.
  • [b]. LXXb adds 24:24 Don’t stop being strong in the Lord, but cling to him so that he might strengthen you. The Lord Almighty alone is God, and there’s no savior except for him.
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