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and in your wisdom you have fashioned man
    to have power over all the creatures you have made,
to govern the world in holiness and righteousness,
    and to mete out justice with an upright heart.
Grant me Wisdom, who sits beside your throne,[a]
    and do not exclude me from the number of your children.

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  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.