Ecclesiastes 7:12-20

¹²For as wisdom defendeth, so money defendeth; but learning and wisdom have this moreover, that those give life to them that have them.

¹³Behold thou the works of God, and see that no man may amend him, whom God hath despised.

¹⁴In a good day use thou goods, and before eschew thou an evil day; for God made so this day as that day, that a man find not just complainings against him.

¹⁵Also I saw these things in the days of my nativity; a just or rightwise man perisheth in his rightfulness or rightwiseness, and a wicked man liveth much time in his malice.

¹⁶Do not thou be just or rightwise over much, neither understand thou more than is needful; lest thou be astonied.

¹⁷Do thou not wickedly much, and do not thou be a fool; lest thou die in a time not thine.

¹⁸It is good, that thou sustain a just or rightwise man; but also withdraw thou not thine hand from him; for he that dreadeth God, is not negligent of anything.

¹⁹Wisdom hath strengthened a wise man, over ten princes of a city.

²⁰Forsooth no just or rightwise man there is in the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.