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Then my works will be acceptable, and I shall judge your people justly, and shall be worthy of the throne of my father.
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For who can learn the counsel of God? Or who can discern what the Lord wills?
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For the reasoning of mortals is worthless, and our designs are likely to fail;
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for a perishable body weighs down the soul, and this earthy tent burdens the thoughtful mind.
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We can hardly guess at what is on earth, and what is at hand we find with labor; but who has traced out what is in the heavens?
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