10. Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.
11. Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance, And an advantage [it is] to those beholding the sun.
12. For wisdom [is] a defense, money [is] a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom [is], She reviveth her possessors.
13. See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?
14. In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.
15. The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging [himself] in his wrong.
16. Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate?
17. Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?