1“O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish and the wearied spirit cry out to you.
2Hear, O Lord, and have mercy, for we have sinned before you.
3 way.
22 Jer 49.7 She has not been heard of in Canaan
or seen in Teman;
23 1 Chr 5.10; Ps 83.6; Jer 49.7 the descendants of Hagar, who seek for understanding on the earth,
the merchants of Merran and Teman,
the storytellers and the seekers for understanding,
have not learned the way to wisdom
or given thought to her paths.
24O Israel, how great is the house of God,
how vast the territory that he possesses!
25It is great and has no bounds;
it is high and immeasurable.
26 Wis 14.6 The giants were born there, who were famous of old,
great in stature, expert in war.
27 Jer 49.7 God did not choose them
or give them the way to knowledge,
28so they perished because they had no wisdom;
they perished through their folly.
29 Deut 30.12, 13; Sir 24.4; Rom 10.6, 7 Who has gone up into heaven and taken her
and brought her down from the clouds?
30 Job 28.15–19; Wis 7.9 Who has gone over the sea and found her
and will buy her for pure gold?
31No one knows the way to her
or is concerned about the path to her.
32 Job 28.23 But the one who knows all things knows her;
he found her by his understanding.
The one who prepared the earth for all time
filled it with four-footed creatures;
33the one who sends forth the light and it goes,
he called it, and it obeyed him, trembling;
34the stars shone in their watches and were glad;
35 Ps 147.4; Isa 40.26; Sir 43.10 he called them, and they said, “Here we are!”
They shone with gladness for him who made them.
36This is our God;
no other can be compared to him.
37 Job 28.23; Ps 147.19; Sir 24.8 He found the whole way to knowledge
and gave her to his servant Jacob
and to Israel, whom he loved.
38 Prov 8.31 Afterward she appeared on earth
and lived with humankind.
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