12. For the protection of wisdom is as the protection of money; and knowledge is profitable because wisdom gives life to those who possess it.
13. Consider the work of God. Who can make straight what God has made crooked?
14. On a good day enjoy good things, and on an evil day consider: Both the one and the other God has made, so that no one may find the least fault with him.
15. I have seen all manner of things in my vain days: the just perishing in their justice, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.
16. “Be not just to excess, and be not overwise. Why work your own ruin?