Ben Sira 24:21-31

21 Those who eat me will hunger for more, and those who drink me will thirst for more.
22 Whoever obeys me will not be put to shame, and those who work with my help will not sin."
23 All this is the book of the covenant of the Most High God, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the congregations of Jacob.
25 It fills men with wisdom, like the Pishon, and like the Tigris at the time of the first fruits.
26 It makes them full of understanding, like the Euphrates, and like the Jordan at harvest time.
27 It makes instruction shine forth like light, like the Gihon at the time of vintage.
28 Just as the first man did not know her perfectly, the last one has not fathomed her;
29 for her thought is more abundant than the sea, and her counsel deeper than the great abyss.
30 I went forth like a canal from a river and like a water channel into a garden.
31 I said, "I will water my orchard and drench my garden plot"; and lo, my canal became a river, and my river became a sea.
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