7. The place you began will seem unimportantbecause your future will be so successful.
8. “Ask old peopleand find out what their ancestors learned.
9. We were only born yesterday and know nothing.Our days on earth are like only a shadow.
10. Those people will teach you and tell you.They will tell you what they know.
11. Papyrus plants cannot grow tall where there is no wet land.Reeds cannot grow tall without water.
12. While they are still growing and not yet cut,they will dry up more quickly than grass.
13. That is what will happen to everyone who forgets God.The hope of the person without God will be gone.
14. What he trusts in is easily broken.It is as easily broken as a spider’s web.
15. He leans on the spider’s web, but it breaks.He holds on to it, but it does not hold him up.
16. He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine.The plant spreads its roots all through the garden.