¹⁰ Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?

⁷ Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

⁴ By faith Abel made a better offering to God than Cain, and he had witness through it of his righteousness, God giving his approval of his offering: and his voice still comes to us through it though he is dead.

³⁵ The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.

¹⁵ The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.

²³ The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips.

⁴ One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength.

⁷ I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.

⁷ But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;

⁸ Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.

¹⁹ Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:

¹ For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,