Baruch 3:12-20
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12 Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom.
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13 For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever.
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14 Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.
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15 Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures ?
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16 Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth;
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17 They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?
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18 For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are unsearchable,
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19 They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.
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20 Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,