Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

If a man beget a hundred sons, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.

Say not, How is it that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

I say, Keep the king's commandment, and that on account of the oath of God.

because the word of a king is power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;