Lat reads thesauri magni pretiosi (some MSS: magni et pretiosi; others: pretiosi et magni); one MS (Z*) has thesauri pretiosi, which supports MS Bmg. 13a.=[t]ôbat ḥay mispar yāmîm, so M and MS Bmg; Btxt, yĕmê mispār. This section contains five poems: (1) 40:1–10 (thirteen bicola); (2) 40:11–17 (seven bicola); (3) 40:18–27 (twelve bicola); (4) 40:28–41:4 (eleven bicola); and (5) 41:5–13 (ten bicola). The first two poems (twenty bicola) have a pronounced pessimistic tone that contrasts
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