12
Some of them he blessed and lifted up, and some he made holy and brought them near to himself; some of them he cursed, brought low, and expelled them from their place.
13
Like clay in the potter's hand, shaped according to the potter's pleasure, so are human beings in the hand of the one who made them, whom he repays according to his judgment.
14
Good is the opposite of evil, and life is the opposite of death; so the sinner is the opposite of the godly.
15
Observe, then, all the works of the Most High, two by two, one opposite the other.
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I was the last to keep vigil, as one who gathered the leftovers after the grape pickers.