Sirach 24:29-31

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁹For her thoughts are more abundant than the sea,
and her counsel deeper than the great abyss.

³⁰As for me, I was like a canal from a river,
    like a water channel into a garden.
³¹I 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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