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24 For Wisdom is mobile beyond all motion,
    and she penetrates and pervades all things by reason of her purity.(A)

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Chapter 15

[a]But you, our God, are good and true,
    slow to anger, and governing all with mercy.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 15:1–3 As often before (11:26; 12:2; 14:3–6), the author addresses God directly, so that chaps. 11–19 can be conceived as a more or less continuous prayer (cf. 11:7 and 19:22). This is the living God who is in stark contrast to the deadness of the idols that have been discussed. The merciful God (cf. Ex 34:6) is the source of immortality (1:15) for the community.