Ecclesiastes 7:24-25
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24 What exists is far-reaching; it is deep, very deep:[a] Who can find it out? 25 [b](A)I turned my heart toward knowledge; I sought and pursued wisdom and its design, and I recognized that wickedness is foolishness and folly is madness.
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- 7:24 Far-reaching…deep: the spatial metaphor here emphasizes wisdom’s inaccessibility, a frequent theme in wisdom literature; cf. Jb 28; Prv 30:1–4; Sir 24:28–29; Bar 3:14–23.
- 7:25–29 The emphasis is on the devious designs of human beings in general, reflecting the viewpoint of Genesis.
Baruch 3:14-15
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14 Learn where prudence is,
where strength, where understanding;
That you may know also
where are length of days, and life,
where light of the eyes, and peace.(A)
15 Who has found the place of wisdom?(B)
Who has entered into her treasuries?
Baruch 3:29-33
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29 Who has gone up to the heavens and taken her,
bringing her down from the clouds?(A)
30 Who has crossed the sea and found her,
bearing her away rather than choice gold?
31 None knows the way to her,
nor has at heart her path.
32 But the one who knows all things knows her;
he has probed her by his knowledge—
The one who established the earth for all time,
and filled it with four-footed animals,
33 Who sends out the lightning, and it goes,
calls it, and trembling it obeys him;
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