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Grant me Wisdom, who sits beside your throne,[a]
    and do not exclude me from the number of your children.
“For I am your servant and the son of your handmaid,
    a weak man with but a short time to live
    and with meager comprehension of justice and law.
Indeed, even one who is perfect among the sons of men
    will be of no account
    if he lacks the Wisdom that comes from you.

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Footnotes

  1. Wisdom 9:4 Wisdom, who sits beside your throne: it is from there that the word of judgment will be launched against Egypt (see Wis 18:15). God is conceived as a sovereign who, from his throne, creates the universe, governs and judges it; his Wisdom conceives and executes.