14. When things are going well for you, be glad, and when trouble comes, just remember: God sends both happiness and trouble; you never know what is going to happen next.
15. My life has been useless, but in it I have seen everything. Some good people may die while others live on, even though they are evil.
16. So don't be too good or too wise — why kill yourself?
17. But don't be too wicked or too foolish, either — why die before you have to?
18. Avoid both extremes. If you have reverence for God, you will be successful anyway.
19. Wisdom does more for a person than ten rulers can do for a city.