7 Though your beginning was small,Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.
8 “For inquire, please, of the former age,And consider the things discovered by their fathers;
9 For we were born yesterday, and know nothing,Because our days on earth are a shadow.
10 Will they not teach you and tell you,And utter words from their heart?
11 “Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?Can the reeds flourish without water?
12 While it is yet green and not cut down,It withers before any other plant.
13 So are the paths of all who forget God;And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish,