12. Some of them he blessed and exalted, And some of them he hallowed and brought near to himself: Some of them he cursed and brought low, And overthrew them from their place.
13. As the clay of the potter in his hand, All his ways are according to his good pleasure; So men are in the hand of him that made them, To render to them according to his judgement.
14. Good is set over against evil, And life over against death: So is the sinner over against the godly.
15. And thus look upon all the works of the Most High; Two and two, one against another.
16. And I waked up last, As one that gleans after the grape gatherers: By the blessing of the Lord I got before them, And filled my winepress as one that gathers grapes.
17. Consider that I laboured not for myself alone, But for all them that seek instruction.