5. The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart: and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree.
6. A friend that is a mocker, is like a stallion horse: he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him.
7. Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, when all come of the sun?
8. By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished, the sun being made, and keeping his commandment.
9. And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and in them they celebrated festivals at an hour.
10. Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and out of the earth, from whence Adam was created.
11. With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them and diversified their ways.
12. Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted: and some of them hath he sanctified, and set near himself: and some of them hath he cursed and brought low, end turned them from their station.
13. As the potter's clay is in his hand, to fashion and order it:
14. All his ways are according to his ordering: so man is in the hand of him that made him, and he will render to him according to his judgment.
15. Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man. And so look upon all the works of the most High. Two and two, and one against another.
16. And I awaked last of all, and as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers.
17. In the blessing of God I also have hoped: and as one that gathereth grapes, have I filled the winepress.
18. See that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all that seek discipline.
19. Hear me, ye great men, and all ye people, and hearken with your ears, ye rulers of the church.
20. Give not to son or wife, brother or friend, power over thee while thou livest; and give not thy estate to another, lest then repent, and thou entreat for the same.
21. As long as thou livest, and hast breath in thee, let no man change thee.