15 Your influence covered the earth, and you filled it with parables and riddles. (WEB)
Sirach 47:15
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Sirach 39:1–3
1 Not so he who has applied his soul and meditates in the law of the Most High. He will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients and will be occupied with prophecies. (WEB) 2 He will keep the sayings of the men of renown and will enter in amidst the subtleties of parable… (WEB)
Book of Enoch 37:4–5
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Sirach 24:24–26
24 Faint not to be strong in the Lord; that he may confirm you, cleave unto him: for the Lord Almighty is God alone, and beside him there is no other Saviour. (KJV) 25 It is he who makes wisdom abundant, as Pishon, and as Tigris in the days of first fruits. (WEB) 26 He makes unders… (WEB)
Psalms 78:1–3
1 A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning, 3 that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
Sirach 24:2–4
2 She will open her mouth in the congregation of the Most High, and proclaim her glory in the presence of his power. (WEB) 3 “I came out of the mouth of the Most High, and covered the earth as a mist. (WEB) 4 I lived in high places, and my throne is in the pillar of the cloud. (WEB)
Sirach 18:28–30
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Ezekiel 28:2–4
2 “Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a…
Sirach 48:7–9
7 You heard rebuke in Sinai, and judgments of vengeance in Horeb. (WEB) 8 You anointed kings for retribution, and prophets to succeed after you. (WEB) 9 You were taken up in a tempest of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses. (WEB)
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