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.
13 So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless will perish,