Ecclesiastes 7:10-13

English Standard Version

¹⁰ Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”
    For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
¹¹ Wisdom is good with an inheritance,
    an advantage to those who ^(A)see the sun.
¹² For the protection of wisdom is like ^(B)the protection of money,
    and the advantage of knowledge is that ^(C)wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
¹³ Consider ^(D)the work of God:
    ^(E)who can make straight what he has made crooked?