Ecclesiastes 7:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹²For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money,
and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to the one who possesses it.
¹³Consider the work of God;
who can make straight what he has made crooked?

¹⁴On the day of prosperity be joyful, and on the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that mortals may not find out anything that will come after them.

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