11. You should not say: "What do you think is the reason that the former times were better than they are now?" For this type of question is foolish.
12. Wisdom with riches is more useful and more advantageous, for those who see the sun.
13. For as wisdom protects, so also does money protect. But learning and wisdom have this much more: that they grant life to one who possesses them.
14. Consider the works of God, that no one is able to correct whomever he has despised.
15. In good times, enjoy good things, but beware of an evil time. For just as God has establish the one, so also the other, in order that man may not find any just complaint against him.
16. I also saw this, in the days of my vanity: a just man perishing in his justice, and an impious man living a long time in his malice.
17. Do not try to be overly just, and do not try to be more wise than is necessary, lest you become stupid.
18. Do not act with great impiety, and do not choose to be foolish, lest you die before your time.