7. Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.
8. Better [is] the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better [is] the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.
9. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.
10. Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.
11. Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance, And an advantage [it is] to those beholding the sun.
12. For wisdom [is] a defense, money [is] a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom [is], She reviveth her possessors.
13. See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?
14. In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.
15. The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging [himself] in his wrong.
16. Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate?
17. Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?