30 For humans are not capable of everything, because the son of man is not immortal. (WEB) 31 What is brighter than the sun? Yet even this can be eclipsed. So flesh and blood devise evil. (WEB) 32 He looks upon the power of the height of heaven, while all men are earth and ashes. (WEB)
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