22
"Remember my doom, for yours is like it: yesterday it was mine, and today it is yours."
23
When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance cease, and be comforted for him when his spirit is departed.
24
The wisdom of the scribe depends on the opportunity of leisure; and he who has little business may become wise.
25
How can he become wise who handles the plow, and who glories in the shaft of a goad, who drives oxen and is occupied with their work, and whose talk is about bulls?
26
He sets his heart on plowing furrows, and he is careful about fodder for the heifers.
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.