⁸ For what advantage has the wise man ^(A)over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?

^14 (A)The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the ^(B)same event happens to all of them. ¹⁵ Then I said in my heart, ^(C)“What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity. ¹⁶ For of the wise as of the fool there is ^(D)no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. ^(E)How the wise dies just like the fool!

¹⁷ As for the rich in ^(A)this present age, charge them ^(B)not to be haughty, nor ^(C)to set their hopes on ^(D)the uncertainty of riches, but on God, ^(E)who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

⁶ And they were both ^(A)righteous before God, walking ^(B)blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.

¹¹ When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?

Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;^[a] walk before me, and be ^(A)blameless,