Baruch 3:10–18

¹⁰How is it, O Israel, that you are in your enemies’ land, that you have become old in a strange country, that you are defiled with the dead,↗

¹¹that you are counted with those who are in Hades?↗

¹²You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom.↗

¹³If you had walked in the way of God, you would have dwelled in peace forever.↗

¹⁴Learn where there is wisdom, where there is strength, and where there is understanding, that you may also know where there is length of days and life, where there is the light of the eyes and peace.↗

¹⁵Who has found out her place? Who has come into her treasuries?↗

¹⁶Where are the princes of the heathen, and those who ruled the beasts that are on the earth,↗

¹⁷those who had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and those who hoarded up silver and gold, in which people trust, and of their getting there is no end?↗

¹⁸For those who diligently sought silver, and were so anxious, and whose works are past finding out,↗