¹¹ I will give you teaching about the hand of God; I will not keep secret from you what is in the mind of the Ruler of all.

¹⁰ So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

⁵ I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.

³ Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;

⁴ He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.

⁸ But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge.

⁹ It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

¹⁰ So I say, Give ear to me, and I will put forward my knowledge.

¹⁷ O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

¹¹ For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me orders not to go in the way of this people, saying,

²⁰ And how I kept back nothing which might be of profit to you, teaching you publicly and privately,