11 ⁷ Do not find fault before you investigate;
first consider, and then reprove.
11 ⁸ Do not answer before you have heard,
nor interrupt a speaker in the midst of his words.
11 ⁹ Do not argue about a matter which does not concern you,
nor sit with sinners when they judge a case.

11 ¹⁰ My son, do not busy yourself with many matters;
if you multiply activities you will not go unpunished,
and if you pursue you will not overtake,
and by fleeing you will not escape.
11 ¹¹ There is a man who works, and toils, and presses on,
but is so much the more in want.
11 ¹² There is another who is slow and needs help,
who lacks strength and abounds in poverty;
but the eyes of the Lord look upon him for his good;
he lifts him out of his low estate
11 ¹³ and raises up his head, so that many are amazed at him.

11 ¹⁴ Good things and bad, life and death,
poverty and wealth, come from the Lord.
11 ¹⁷ The gift of the Lord endures for those who are godly,
and what he approves will have lasting success.
11 ¹⁸ There is a man who is rich through his diligence and self-denial,
and this is the reward allotted to him:
11 ¹⁹ when he says, "I have found rest, and now I shall enjoy my goods!"
he does not know how much time will pass until he leaves them to others and dies.
11 ²⁰ Stand by your covenant and attend to it,
and grow old in your work.

11 ²¹ Do not wonder at the works of a sinner, but trust in the Lord and keep at your toil;
for it is easy in the sight of the Lord to enrich a poor man quickly and suddenly.
11 ²² The blessing of the Lord is the reward of the godly,
and quickly God causes his blessing to flourish.
11 ²³ Do not say, "What do I need, and what prosperity could be mine in the future?"
11 ²⁴ Do not say, "I have enough, and what calamity could happen to me in the future?"
11 ²⁵ In the day of prosperity, adversity is forgotten,
and in the day of adversity, prosperity is not remembered.
11 ²⁶ For it is easy in the sight of the Lord to reward a man on the day of death according to his conduct.
11 ²⁷ The misery of an hour makes one forget luxury,
and at the close of a man's life his deeds will be revealed.
11 ²⁸ Call no one happy before his death;
a man will be known through his children.