18 Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”
Isaiah 33:18
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Job 21:27–29
27 Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me. 28 For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’ 29 Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their report…
Isaiah 14:15–17
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2 Baruch 3:7–9
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Sirach 1:1–3
1 All wisdom comes from the Lord, and is with him forever. (WEB) 2 Who can count the sand of the seas, the drops of rain, and the days of eternity? (WEB) 3 Who will search out the height of the sky, the breadth of the earth, the deep, and wisdom? (WEB)
2 Baruch 52:1–2
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2 Baruch 75:3–5
3 Or who can comprehend Thy intelligence? (2BA) 4 Or who is able to recount the thoughts of Thy mind? (2BA) 5 Or who of those who are born can hope to come to those things, Unless he is one to whom Thou art merciful and gracious? (2BA)
2 Esdras 16:25–27
25 The trees will give fruit, but who will gather it? (WEB) 26 The grapes will ripen, but who will tread them? For in all places there will be a great solitude; (WEB) 27 for one man will desire to see another, or to hear his voice. (WEB)
Jeremiah 15:4–6
4 I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem. 5 Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? 6 You have forsaken…
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