3:9 Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.
3:10 How happeneth it Israel, that thou art in thine enemies’ land, that thou art waxen old in a strange country, that thou art defiled with the dead,
3:11 That thou art counted with them that go down into the grave?
3:12 Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom.
3:13 For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever.
3:14 Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.
3:15 Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures?
3:16 Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth;
3:17 They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?
3:18 For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are unsearchable,