²¹ No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

¹⁶ And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.

¹³ As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.

¹⁴ For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

¹⁶ For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

¹³ You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.