E — Wisdom Literature

Chapter 10

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A Leader's Lament Two small fragments have survived of a poetic lament by a person in authority. The text is too small to allow us to determine whether these are the words or pseudepigraphic words of a head of the sectarian community. For the editio princeps, see M. Weinfeld and D. Seely, DJD, XXIX, 335-41. Fr. i I.. to assemble the righteous of my people and to establish the way of life.. to bring into the covenant the men of my company.. my inheritance. Therefore my eyes are a spring of water.. discipline and those who will stand up after them, who.. And behold my whole city has changed into thorns.. Behold all my judges have become foolish.. my righteous ones simple-minded, who.. traitors..