9. Do not be quick in your spirit to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
10. Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
11. Wisdom is good with an inheritance; it benefits the living.
12. For wisdom offers protection like money offers protection. But knowledge has an advantage—wisdom restores life to its possessor.
13. Consider the work of God. For who is able to make straight what he made crooked?
14. In the day of prosperity, rejoice! But in the day of adversity, consider! For God made one in place of another so that mortals cannot find out what will happen in the future.