Behold, this is just as we have found it, which you have heard; walk it through your mind.
Are you, therefore, alone among men, and will wisdom die with you?
Behold, my eye has seen all these things, and my ear has heard, and I have understood each one.
I will reveal to you, so listen to me; and I will explain to you what I have seen.
Can man be compared with God, even if he were perfect in knowledge?
You will enter the grave with abundance, just as a crop of wheat is gathered in its time.
But Job, responding, said:
His offspring will be powerful on the earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
If you would be wise, you will be so for yourself. But if you would be one who ridicules, you alone shall carry the evil.
and that you keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which I am instructing to you this day, so that it may be well with you.