33 ⁷ Why is any day better than another,
when all the daylight in the year is from the sun?
33 ⁸ By the Lord's decision they were distinguished,
and he appointed the different seasons and feasts;
33 ⁹ some of them he exalted and hallowed,
and some of them he made ordinary days.
33 ¹⁰ All men are from the ground,
and Adam was created of the dust.
33 ¹¹ In the fulness of his knowledge the Lord distinguished them
and appointed their different ways;
33 ¹² some of them he blessed and exalted,
and some of them he made holy and brought near to himself;
but some of them he cursed and brought low,
and he turned them out of their place.
33 ¹³ As clay in the hand of the potter -
for all his ways are as he pleases -
so men are in the hand of him who made them,
to give them as he decides.

33 ¹⁴ Good is the opposite of evil,
and life the opposite of death;
so the sinner is the opposite of the godly.
33 ¹⁵ Look upon all the works of the Most High;
they likewise are in pairs, one the opposite of the other.

33 ¹⁶ I was the last on watch;
I was like one who gleans after the grape-gatherers;
by the blessing of the Lord I excelled,
and like a grape-gatherer I filled my wine press.
33 ¹⁷ Consider that I have not laboured for myself alone,
but for all who seek instruction.
33 ¹⁸ Hear me, you who are great among the people,
and you leaders of the congregation, hearken.