32:20 Go not in a way wherein thou mayest fall, and stumble not among the stones. 32:21 Be not confident in a plain way. 32:22 And beware of thine own children. 32:23 In every good work trust thy own soul; for this is the keeping of the commandments. 32:24 He that believeth in the Lord taketh heed to the commandment; and he that trusteth in him shall fare never the worse. 33:1 There shall no evil happen unto him that feareth the Lord; but in temptation even again he will deliver him. 33:2 A wise man hateth not the law; but he that is an hypocrite therein is as a ship in a storm. 33:3 A man of understanding trusteth in the law; and the law is faithful unto him, as an oracle. 33:4 Prepare what to say, and so thou shalt be heard: and bind up instruction, and then make answer. 33:5 The heart of the foolish is like a cartwheel; and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree. 33:6 A stallion horse is as a mocking friend, he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him. 33:7 Why doth one day excel another, when as all the light of every day in the year is of the sun? 33:8 By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished: and he altered seasons and feasts. 33:9 Some of them hath he made high days, and hallowed them, and some of them hath he made ordinary days. 33:10 And all men are from the ground, and Adam was created of earth: 33:11 In much knowledge the Lord hath divided them, and made their ways diverse. 33:12 Some of them hath he blessed and exalted and some of them he sanctified, and set near himself: but some of them hath he cursed and brought low, and turned out of their places. 33:13 As the clay is in the potter’s hand, to fashion it at his pleasure: so man is in the hand of him that made him, to render to them as liketh him best. 33:14 Good is set against evil, and life against death: so is the godly against the sinner, and the sinner against the godly. 33:15 So look upon all the works of the most High; and there are two and two, one against another. 33:16 I awaked up last of all, as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers: by the blessing of the Lord I profited, and filled my winepress like a gatherer of grapes. 33:17 Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning. 33:18 Hear me, O ye great men of the people, and hearken with your ears, ye rulers of the congregation. 33:19 Give not thy son and wife, thy brother and friend, power over thee while thou livest, and give not thy goods to another: lest it repent thee, and thou intreat for the same again. 33:20 As long as thou livest and hast breath in thee, give not thyself over to any. 33:21 For better it is that thy children should seek to thee, than that thou shouldest stand to their courtesy. 33:22 In all thy works keep to thyself the preeminence; leave not a stain in thine honour. 33:23 At the time when thou shalt end thy days, and finish thy life, distribute thine inheritance.