1Do not desire a multitude of worthless children,
and do not rejoice in ungodly offspring.
2If they multiply, do not rejoice in them,
unless the fear of the Lord is in them.
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for one can be better than a thousand,
and to die childless is better than to have ungodly children.
4For through one intelligent person a city can be filled with people,
but through a clan of outlaws it becomes desolate.
5Many such things my eye has seen,
and my ear has heard things more striking than these.
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who revolted in their might.
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he acquits and forgives, but he also pours out wrath.
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22Who is to announce his acts of justice?
Or who can await them? For his decree is far off.”
23Such are the thoughts of one devoid of understanding;
a senseless and misguided person thinks foolishly.
God’s Wisdom Seen in Creation24
and declare knowledge accurately.
26When the Lord created his works from the beginning
and, in making them, determined their boundaries,
27 for all generations.
They neither hunger nor grow weary,
and they do not abandon their tasks.
28They do not crowd one another,
and they never disobey his word.
29 Gen 1.29–31 Then the Lord looked upon the earth
and filled it with his good things.
30 Gen 1.25; Eccl 3.20 With all kinds of living beings he covered its surface,
and into it they must return.
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