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28 The first human
didn’t know Wisdom completely,
    and so the last won’t probe her fully.
29 Her thoughts are more plentiful
than the sea;
    her counsel is deeper
    than the great abyss.[a]
30 Like a canal from a river,
    like an irrigation channel,
    I went out into a garden.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 24:29 Or Her thoughts grow from the sea, and her plan grows from the deep abyss.

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