19. Some spring up, and others fall away. Such is the generation of flesh and blood. One is finished, and another is born.
20. Every corruptible work will fail in the end. And its worker will go with it.
21. But every excellent work will be justified. And whoever worked it will be honored by it.
22. Blessed is the man who will abide in wisdom, and who will meditate on her righteousness, and who, in his mind, will consider the circumspection of God.
23. He considers her ways in his heart, and he finds understanding in her secrets. He goes after her like an investigator, and he is constant in her ways.
24. He gazes through her windows, and he listens at her door.
25. He rests next to her house, and, fastening a peg in her walls, he sets up his cottage by her hands. And so, good things will find rest in his cottage as time passes.
26. He will station his sons under her covering, and he will abide under her branches.
27. He will be protected by her covering from the heat, and he will rest in her glory.