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Wisdom 9:13-15
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 9:13-15
New Catholic Bible
13 “What person can have knowledge of the counsel of God,
or who can discern what the will of the Lord is?
14 The reasonings of mortals are faulty
and our reflections are unstable.
15 For a perishable body burdens the soul,
and its earthly tent[a] weighs down the mind filled with many cares.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 9:15 Earthly tent: our spirit, because it is incarnated, is limited in the knowledge of things. The images of the “body subject to corruption” and the “earthly tent” are dear to Paul (see 2 Cor 4:7; 5:1-4). The fact that the body constitutes a burden for human beings does not mean that the flesh is evil.
