27
It pours forth instruction like the Nile, like the Gihon at the time of vintage.
28
The first man did not know wisdom fully, nor will the last one fathom her.
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For her thoughts are more abundant than the sea, and her counsel deeper than the great abyss.
30
As for me, I was like a canal from a river, like a water channel into a garden.
31
I said, "I will water my garden and drench my flower-beds." And lo, my canal became a river, and my river a sea.
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