7. Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
8. For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the findings of their fathers:
9. (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
10. Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
11. Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? can the reeds grow without water?
12. While it is yet green, and not cut down, it withers before any other plant.