17. they that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust; and of whose getting there is no end?
18. For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are past finding out,
19. they are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.
20. Younger men have seen the light, and lived upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,
21. neither understood they the paths thereof: neither have their children laid hold of it: they are far off from their way.
22. It has not been heard of in Canaan, neither has it been seen in Teman.
23. The sons also of Agar that seek understanding, which are in the land, the merchants of Merran and Teman, and the authors of fables, and the searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remembered her paths.
24. O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession!
25. great, and has none end; high, and unmeasurable.
26. There were the giants born that were famous of old, great of stature, and expert in war.
27. These did not God choose, neither gave he the way of knowledge to them:
28. so they perished, because they had no wisdom, they perished through their own foolishness.