Have I not written for you thirty sayings of admonition and knowledge,
The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.
Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right,
The Teacher sought to find pleasing words, and he wrote words of truth plainly.
Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions, they are regarded as a strange thing.