6 If you are pure and upright, indeed, now he will rouse himself for you, and he will restore your righteous abode.
7 Though your beginning was small, your end will be very great.
8 “Indeed, please inquire of former generations, and consider what their ancestors have found,
9 for we are of yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth are a shadow.
10 Will they themselves not teach you and tell you and utter words from their heart?
11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is not a marsh? Will reeds flourish without water?
12 While it is in its flower and is not plucked, yet it withers before all grass.