8 What is mankind, and what purpose do they serve? What is their good, and what is their evil? (WEB)
Sirach 18:8
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Psalms 8:3–5
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Job 15:8–10
8 Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself? 9 What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us? 10 Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.
4 Maccabees 1:13–15
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Odes of Solomon 26:10–12
10 Or who can rest on the Most High, so that with His mouth he may speak? (ODE) 11 Who is able to interpret the wonders of the Lord? (ODE) 12 For he who could interpret would be dissolved and would become that which is interpreted. (ODE)
Ecclesiastes 3:8–10
8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. 9 What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.
Job 10:3–5
3 Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked? 4 Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees? 5 Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
Wisdom of Solomon 5:4–6
4 We fools considered his life madness, and his end without honor. (WEB) 5 How was he counted among sons of God? How is his lot among saints? (WEB) 6 Truly we went astray from the way of truth. The light of righteousness didn’t shine for us. The sun didn’t rise for us. (WEB)
Epistle to Diognetus 8:1–2
1 For what man at all had any knowledge what God was, before He came? (DIO) 2 Or dost thou accept the empty and nonsensical statements of those pretentious philosophers: of whom some said that God was fire (they call that God, whereunto they themselves shall go), and ot… (DIO)
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