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Who can count raindrops or the sand along the shore?
    Who can count the days of eternity?
How high is the sky? How wide is the earth?
    How deep is the ocean? How profound is Wisdom?
    Can anyone find answers to these questions?
Wisdom was created before anything else;
    understanding has always existed.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 1:4 Some manuscripts add verse 5: The source of Wisdom is the word of God on high; her ways are eternal commands.

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