20 Sheol and hell are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21 As the fining pot tries the silver and the furnace the gold; so the man is tried by the mouth of whoever praises him.
22 Though thou should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
23 Be thou diligent to know the countenance of thy sheep, and put thy heart into thy herds.
24 For riches are not for ever, and does the crown endure to every generation?
25 The tender grass shows itself, and the hay appears, and the herbs of the mountains are reaped.
26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are for the price of the field.