16. Where are the leading officialsof the nationsand the masters of the animalsthat are on the earth?
17. Where are those who entrapthe birds in the sky,and those who store up silver and gold, in which humans have trusted?There is no end to their attemptsto acquire more.
18. Where are those who anxiously schemed to acquire silver?There is no trace of their actions.
19. They have all vanishedand gone to the grave,and others have risen up in their place.
20. New generations have seen the lightand lived on the earth,but they didn’t knowthe way of knowledge.
21. They didn’t understand her pathsor take hold of her.Their children also went far off course.
22. She hadn’t been heard of in Canaanor seen in Teman.
23. Hagar’s children,who seek earthly understanding,the traders of Merran and Teman,the storytellers and knowledge seekers,haven’t learned the way of Wisdom,nor have they remembered her paths.
24. Israel, how great is God’s houseand spacious is God’s domain!
25. It is great and has no end;it is high and immeasurable!
26. The giants were born there,the famous onesfrom the beginning of time,who were very largeand experts in war.
27. God didn’t select them or give themthe way of true knowledge.
28. So they perishedbecause they didn’t have Wisdom;they perishedthrough their carelessness.
29. Who went into heaven, took Wisdom,and brought her down from the clouds?
30. Who crossed over to the other side of the sea and found her,and who will bring her backwith choice gold?