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For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever.
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Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.
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Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures?
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Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth;
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They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?
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For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are unsearchable,
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They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.
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Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,
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Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their children were far off from that way.
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It hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman.
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The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of Meran and of Theman, the authors of fables, and searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remember her paths.