11 [For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear the voice of the Holy One without being troubled? And who can think His thoughts? and who is there that can behold all the works of heaven? (ENO) 12 And how should there be one who could behold the heaven, and who is there that could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a spirit and could tell thereof, or ascend and see all their ends and think them or do like them? (ENO) 13 And who is there of all men that could know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has been shown the measure of all of them? (ENO)
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