6. No one can lessen, increase,or fathom the wonders of the Lord.
7. When mortals finish, they are only beginning,and when they stop they are still bewildered.
8. What are mortals? What are they worth?What is good in them, and what is evil?
9. The number of their days seems greatif it reaches a hundred years.
10. Like a drop of water from the sea and a grain of sand,so are these few years among the days of eternity.
11. That is why the Lord is patient with themand pours out his mercy on them.
12. He sees and understands that their death is wretched,and so he forgives them all the more.
13. Their compassion is for their neighbor,but the Lord’s compassion reaches all flesh,Reproving, admonishing, teaching,and turning them back, as a shepherd his flock.
14. He has compassion on those who accept his discipline,who are eager for his precepts.
15. My child, add no reproach to your charity,or spoil any gift by harsh words.
16. Does not the dew give relief from the scorching heat?So a word can be better than a gift.