6. if thou wert pure and upright, surely now he would awake upon thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7. In such a way that thy beginning would have been small, in comparison to the great increase of thy latter.
8. Ask, I pray thee, of the former age, and be willing to enquire of thy fathers regarding them;
9. for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.