¹³ You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

⁸ What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

⁷ Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

⁸ Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

¹⁶ A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.

⁷ For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

⁸ By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

³ In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

¹¹ And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.

⁵ A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.

²⁰ With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be full; the produce of his lips will be his in full measure.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.

¹⁹ True lips are certain for ever, but a false tongue is only for a minute.

³¹ So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

¹⁰ Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

⁷ See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.