7. Your future will be brighterby far than your past.
8. Our ancestors were wise,so learn from them.
9. Our own time has been short,like a fading shadow,and we know very little.
10. But they will instruct youwith great understanding.
11. Papyrus reeds grow healthyonly in a swamp,
12. and if the water dries up,they die sooner than grass.
13. Such is the hopeless futureof all who turn from God
14. and trust in something as frailas a spider's web—
15. they take hold and fallbecause it's so flimsy.