Ecclesiastes 7:11-18

¹¹Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and there is an advantage by it to them that see the sun.

¹²For wisdom in its shadow is as the shadow of silver: and the excellence of the knowledge of wisdom will give life to him that has it.

¹³Behold the works of God: for who shall be able to straighten him whom God has made crooked?

¹⁴In the day of prosperity live joyfully, and consider in the day of adversity: consider, I say, God also has caused the one to agree with the other for this reason, that man should find nothing after him.

¹⁵I have seen all things in the days of my vanity: there is a just man perishing in his justice, and there is an ungodly man remaining in his wickedness.

¹⁶Be not very just; neither be very wise: lest thou be confounded.

¹⁷Be not very wicked; and be not stubborn: lest thou shouldest die before thy time.

¹⁸It is well for thee to hold fast by this; also by this defile not thine hand: for to them that fear God all things shall come forth well.