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to be much, and from impiety do not defile your heart, because fearing God you will depart from all wickedness. 65

8, 2.1 Guard the king's mouth Mouth he now calls the word or the commandment. 66 8, 12.3-5 for I also know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before him; 8, 13 and it will not be well with the impious, and he who does not fear before the face of God will not prolong his days in shadow Now he calls the knowledge of God "good". 67 8, 14 there is a vanity which has been done upon the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous; I said that this also is vanity There is a vanity, he says, which happens upon the earth, that there are righteous men who fall into calamities as if they were wicked, and there are wicked men who enjoy good things as if they were righteous. For concerning these things the prophet also says to the Lord: "Yet I will speak judgments with you: Why does the way of the wicked prosper?"; and David: "My steps," he says, "had almost slipped; for I was envious of the lawless, seeing the peace of sinners." 68

9, 1.1-2 for all this I laid to my heart, and my heart has seen all this Man brings matters to the heart, turning to their investigation, and the heart after this knows the matters; and this is the meaning of "I, and my heart, went around to know". For both he who brings the matter to the heart through examination and the heart again knowing it go around the matter. However, this must be known, that not all things that man goes around does the heart also know; for we examine many things, but we know few. 69 9, 10.3-4 for there is no work nor reasoning nor knowledge nor wisdom in Hades, where you are going If there is no reasoning in Hades, how does the rich man beseech Abraham to send Lazarus to him? 70 9, 12.1 and man did not know his time Man did not know that "time" is a period for right action; for "time" signifies opportunity. 71 11, 9.3-4 and walk in the ways of your heart, blameless, and in the sight of your eyes In action and contemplation. 72 11, 10.1-2 and remove anger from your heart and put away evil from your flesh From this we know that the spirited part is joined to the heart, and the appetitive part to the flesh. 73 Now by "evil" he means fornication and gluttony.

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εἶναι πολύ, καί γε ἀπὸ ἀσεβείας μὴ μιάνῃς τὴν καρδίαν σου, ὅτι φοβούμενος τὸν θεὸν ἀπὸ πάσης ἐξελεύσῃ κακίας. 65

8, 2.1 στόμα βασιλέως φύλαξον Στόμα νῦν λέγει τὸν λόγον ἢ τὴν ἐντολήν. 66 8, 12.3-5 ὅτι καί γε γινώσκω ἐγὼ ὅτι ἔσται ἀγαθὸν τοῖς φοβουμένοις τὸν θεόν, ὅπως φοβῶνται ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ· 8, 13 καὶ ἀγαθὸν οὐκ ἔσται τῷ ἀσεβεῖ, καὶ οὐ μακρυνεῖ ἡμέρας ἐν σκιᾷ ὃς οὐκ ἔστιν φοβούμενος ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ θεοῦ Νῦν ἀγαθὸν τὴν γνῶσιν λέγει τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ. 67 8, 14 ἔστιν ματαιότης ἣ πεποίηται ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ὅτι εἰσὶν δίκαιοι ὅτι φθάνει πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὡς ποίημα τῶν ἀσεβῶν, καὶ εἰσὶν ἀσεβεῖς ὅτι φθάνει πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὡς ποίημα τῶν δικαίων· εἶπα ὅτι καί γε τοῦτο ματαιότησ Ἔστι ματαιότης, φησίν, ἥτις γίνεται ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ὅτι εἰσὶ δίκαιοι καὶ ὡς ἀσεβεῖς περιπίπτουσι συμφοραῖς, καὶ εἰσὶν ἀσεβεῖς καὶ ὡς δίκαιοι ἀπολαύουσιν ἀγαθῶν. Περὶ γὰρ τούτων καὶ ὁ προφήτης φησὶ πρὸς τὸν κύριον· «πλὴν κρίματα λαλήσω πρὸς σέ· τί ὅτι ὁδὸς ἀσεβῶν εὐοδοῦται;»· καὶ ὁ ∆αυίδ· «παρ' ὀλίγον, φησίν, ἐξεχύθη τὰ διαβήματά μου· ὅτι ἐζήλωσα ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀνόμοις εἰρήνην ἁμαρτωλῶν θεωρῶν.» 68

9, 1.1-2 ὅτι σὺν πᾶν τοῦτο ἔδωκα εἰς τὴν καρδίαν μου, καὶ καρδία μου σὺν πᾶν εἶδεν τοῦτο Ὁ μὲν ἄνθρωπος προσάγει τῇ καρδίᾳ τὰ πράγματα πρὸς τὴν ἔρευναν αὐτῶν ἀποκλίνων, ἡ δὲ καρδία μετὰ ταῦτα γινώσκει τὰ πράγματα· καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ «ἐκύκλωσα ἐγώ, καὶ ἡ καρδία μου τοῦ γνῶναι». Κυκλοῖ γὰρ τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ ὁ προσάγων αὐτὸ τῇ καρδίᾳ διὰ τῆς ἐξετάσεως καὶ ἡ καρδία πάλιν γινώσκουσα αὐτό. Πλὴν τοῦτο ἰστέον, ὅτι οὐ πάντα ὅσα κυκλοῖ ὁ ἄνθρωπος καὶ γινώσκει ἡ καρδία· πολλὰ γὰρ ἐξετάζομεν, ὀλίγα δὲ γινώσκομεν. 69 9, 10.3-4 ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ποίημα καὶ λογισμὸς καὶ γνῶσις καὶ σοφία ἐν ᾅδῃ, ὅπου σὺ πορεύῃ ἐκεῖ Εἰ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ᾅδῃ λογισμός, πῶς ὁ πλούσιος παρακαλεῖ τὸν Ἀβραὰμ ἀποστεῖλαι τὸν Λάζαρον πρὸς αὐτόν; 70 9, 12.1 καί γε οὐκ ἔγνω ὁ ἄνθρωπος τὸν καιρὸν αὐτοῦ Οὐκ ἔγνω ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὅτι καιρός ἐστι χρόνος κατορθώσεως· καιρὸν γὰρ τὴν εὐκαιρίαν δηλοῖ. 71 11, 9.3-4 καὶ περιπάτει ἐν ὁδοῖς καρδίας σου, ἄμωμος, καὶ ἐν ὁράσει ὀφθαλμῶν σου Ἐν πράξει καὶ θεωρίᾳ. 72 11, 10.1-2 καὶ ἀπόστησον θυμὸν ἀπὸ καρδίας σου καὶ παράγαγε πονηρίαν ἀπὸ σαρκός σου Ἐντεῦθεν γινώσκομεν ὅτι τὸ μὲν θυμικὸν τῇ καρδίᾳ συνέζευκται, τὸ δὲ ἐπιθυμητικὸν τῇ σαρκί. 73 Νῦν πονηρίαν τὴν πορνείαν λέγει καὶ τὴν γαστριμαργίαν.