6. If you approach with purity and honesty, he will quickly be attentive to you, and a peaceful life will repay your righteousness,
7. so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly.
8. For inquire of the earliest generation, and investigate diligently the history of the fathers,
9. (of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,)
10. and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts.
11. Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water?
12. When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.
13. Just so are the ways of all who forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite will perish.
14. His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider's web.
15. He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise.