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.
19. It is good for you to support a just man. Furthermore, you should not withdraw your hand from him, for whoever fears God, neglects nothing.
20. Wisdom has strengthened the wise more than ten princes of a city.
21. But there is no just man on earth, who does good and does not sin.
22. So then, do not attach your heart to every word that is spoken, lest perhaps you may hear your servant speaking ill of you.
23. For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly spoken evil of others.
24. I have tested everything in wisdom. I have said: "I will be wise." And wisdom withdrew farther from me,
25. so much more than it was before. Wisdom is very profound, so who shall reveal her?
26. I have examined all things in my soul, so that I may know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason, and so that I may recognize the impiety of the foolish, and the error of the imprudent.