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Ecclesiasticus 24:29-46 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

29. They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst.

30. He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin.

31. They that explain me shall have life everlasting.

32. All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the most High, and the knowledge of truth.

33. Moses commanded a law in the precepts of justices, and an inheritance to the house of Jacob, and the promises to Israel.

34. He appointed to David his servant to raise up of him a most mighty king, and sitting on the throne of glory for ever.

35. Who filleth up wisdom as the Phison, and as the Tigris in the days of the new fruits.

36. Who maketh understanding to abound as the Euphrates, who multiplieth it as the Jordan in the time of harvest.

37. Who sendeth knowledge as the light, and riseth up as Gehon in the time of the vintage.

38. Who first hath perfect knowledge of her, and a weaker shall not search her out.

39. For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean.

40. I, wisdom, have poured out rivers.

41. I, like a brook out of a river of a mighty water; I, like a channel of a river, and like an aqueduct, came out of paradise.

42. I said: I will water my garden of plants, and I will water abundantly the fruits of my meadow.

43. And behold my brook became a great river, and my river came near to a sea:

44. For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as the morning light, and I will declare it afar off.

45. I will penetrate to all the lower parts of the earth, and will behold all that sleep, and will enlighten all that hope in the Lord.

46. I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and will leave it to them that seek wisdom, and will not cease to instruct their offspring even to the holy age.

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