18. Who schemed anxiously for money,their doings beyond discovery?
19. They have vanished, gone down to Hades,and others have risen up in their stead.
20. Later generations have seen the light of day,have dwelt on the earth,But the way to understanding they have not known,
21. they have not perceived her paths or reached her;their children remain far from the way to her.
22. She has not been heard of in Canaan,nor seen in Teman.
23. The descendants of Hagar who seek knowledge on earth,the merchants of Medan and Tema,the storytellers and those seeking knowledge—These have not known the way to wisdom,nor have they kept her paths in mind.
24. O Israel, how vast is the dwelling of God,how broad the scope of his dominion:
25. Vast and endless,high and immeasurable!
26. In it were born the giants,renowned at the first,huge in stature, skilled in war.
27. These God did not choose,nor did he give them the way of understanding;
28. They perished for lack of prudence,perished through their own folly.
29. Who has gone up to the heavens and taken her,bringing her down from the clouds?