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Sirach 24:30-41 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

30. Whoever listens to me will not be confounded. And whoever acts in me will not sin.

31. Whoever elucidates me will have eternal life."

32. All this is a book of life, and a covenant of the Most High, and an acknowledgement of truth.

33. Moses commanded the law by the precepts of justice, and an inheritance to the house of Jacob, and the promises to Israel.

34. God appointed David as his servant, in order to raise up from him a most mighty King, who would sit upon the throne of honor forever.

35. It is he who fulfills wisdom, like the Phison river and the Tigris river in the first days.

36. It is he who fulfills understanding, like the river Euphrates. It is he who multiplies understanding, like the river Jordan in the time of the harvest.

37. He sends forth discipline like the light, and he stands forth like the river Gehon in the time of the vintage.

38. He first had perfect knowledge of her, for a weaker one would not search for her.

39. For her thoughts abound like the sea, and her counsels abound like the great abyss.

40. "I, wisdom, have poured forth rivers.

41. I am like a brook leading to a river of immense waters. I am like a channel flowing from a river. And I went forth from Paradise like an aqueduct.

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