⁸ For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

¹ And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I `am' God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;

² I act wisely in a perfect way, When dost Thou come in unto me? I walk habitually in the integrity of my heart, In the midst of my house.

⁹ I walk habitually before Jehovah In the lands of the living.

¹ Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse `in' his lips, who `is' a fool.

¹⁴ The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

¹⁵ and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity:

¹⁶ That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

¹¹ In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit `is' to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

⁶ and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

¹⁷ Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --