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13 Consider the work of God,
    for who can straighten what He has bent?
14 In a time of prosperity, prosper!
    But in a time of adversity, consider:
God has made one as well as the other.
    Therefore man cannot discover anything about his future.

Avoid Extremes

15 During my fleeting days I have seen both of these things:
sometimes a righteous one perishes in his righteousness
and sometimes a wicked one lives long in his wickedness.

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