Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God. 15Wisdom and discipline, and the knowledge of the law are with God. Love and the ways of good things are with him. 16Error and darkness are created with sinners: and they that glory in evil things, grow old in evil. 17The gift of God abideth with the just, and his advancement shall have success for ever. 18There is one that is enriched by living sparingly, and this is the portion of his reward. 19In that he saith: I have found me rest, and now I will eat of my goods alone: 20And he knoweth not what time shall pass, and that death approacheth, and that he must leave all to others, and shall die. 21Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and grow old in the work of thy commandments. 22Abide not in the works of sinners. But trust in God, and stay in thy place, 23For it is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden to make the poor man rich. 24The blessing of God maketh haste to reward the just, and in a swift hour his blessing beareth fruit. 25Say not: What need I, and what good shall I have by this? 26Say not: I am sufficient for myself: and what shall I be made worse by this? 27In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things: 28For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways.