CHAPTER XII.

Critical Notes 1 The Love of Knowledge and the Proof of It 2 Outlines and Suggestive Comments. 3 A Right Desire and the Means of Its Attainment 4 A Husband's Crown 5-8 Thoughts and Words and Their Result 9 Show and Reality 10 Care for Animals and Cruelty to Men 11 Satisfaction from Tillage 12-14 The Desire of Wicked Men and the Fruit of Righteousness 15, 16 Two Examples of Foolishness and Wisdom 17-19 & 22 Wounding and Healing 20 Joy from Peace 21 All Working for the Good of the Righteous 23 The Concealment of Knowledge and the Proclamation of Foolishness 24 The Reward of Diligence 25 Heaviness of Heart and Its Cure 26 The Guide and the Seducer 27 The Loss of the Slothful, and the Gain of the Diligent 28 The Way of Life