Reading 1, Wisdom 9:13-18 13 'What human being indeed can know the intentions of God? 17 And who could ever have known your will, had you not given Wisdom and sent your holy Spirit from above? 4 A thousand years are to you like a yesterday which has passed, like a watch of the night. 12 Teach us to count up the days that are ours, and we shall come to the heart of wisdom. 32 If not, then while the other king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace.