Sirach 24:29-31

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁹for her thought is more abundant than the sea,
and her counsel deeper than the great abyss.

³⁰I went forth like a canal from a river
    and like a water channel into a garden.
³¹I said, “I will water my orchard
    and drench my garden plot”;
and lo, my canal became a river,
    and my river became a sea.

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