16 Give, and receive, and justify your soul.
17 Before your passing, accomplish justice. For in death, there is no food to be found.
18 All flesh grows old like the grass, and like the foliage that springs forth from a green tree.
19 Some spring up, and others fall away. Such is the generation of flesh and blood. One is finished, and another is born.
20 Every corruptible work will fail in the end. And its worker will go with it.
21 But every excellent work will be justified. And whoever worked it will be honored by it.
22 Blessed is the man who will abide in wisdom, and who will meditate on her righteousness, and who, in his mind, will consider the circumspection of God.