7. Why does day follow after day, and light follow after light, and year follow after year, in accord with the sun?
8. By the knowledge of the Lord, they were arranged, after the sun was made, in keeping with his command.
9. And so, the seasons changed, with their feast days. And according to them, they celebrated the feast days, in their hour.
10. Some of them, God exalted and magnified. And some of them, he set amid the ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and from the earth, from which Adam was created.
11. With a mulititude of disciplines, the Lord has distinguished them and diversified their ways.
12. Some of them, he has blessed and exalted. And some of them he has sanctified and placed close to himself. And some of them, he has cursed and brought low, and he has turned them from their station.
13. Just as the clay is in the potter's hand, so as to form and to shape it,
14. so are all his ways in accord with his dispensation, and so is man in the hand of the One who made him. And he will repay him according to his judgment.
15. Good is against evil, and life is against death; so also is a sinner against a just man. And so should you consider all the works of the Most High: two and two, and one against another.
16. And I awakened at the very end, and I was like one who gathers grapes after the grape-gatherers.
17. I, too, have hoped in the blessing of God. And I have filled the winepress like one who gathers grapes.
18. Consider how I have not labored for myself alone, but for all who are seeking discipline.
19. Listen to me, you great ones, with all the peoples. And incline your ears, you rulers of the Church.