10Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.
11Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.
12Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.
13Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
14In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.
15These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.
16Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?
