17
All living beings become old like a garment, for the decree from of old is, "You must surely die!"
18
Like flourishing leaves on a spreading tree which sheds some and puts forth others, so are the generations of flesh and blood: one dies and another is born.
19
Every product decays and ceases to exist, and the man who made it will pass away with it.
20
Blessed is the man who meditates on wisdom and who reasons intelligently.
21
He who reflects in his mind on her ways will also ponder her secrets.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.