¹² If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; And if thou scoffest, thou alone shalt bear it.

² Can a man be profitable unto God? Surely he that is wise is profitable unto himself.

³ Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? Or is it gain `to him', that thou makest thy ways perfect?

²¹ Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee.

⁶ If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

⁷ If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hand?

²⁶ The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him `thereto'.

²² Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.

²⁰ The soul that sinneth, it shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

³ knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

¹⁶ as also in all `his' epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as `they do' also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.