A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent [is] easy.
Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.
(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.
Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.
A scorner loveth not his reprover, Unto the wise he goeth not.
Why [is] this — a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?
The face of the intelligent [is] to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool — at the end of the earth.
A fool delighteth not in understanding, But — in uncovering his heart.
Wisdom [is] high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.
Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!
In righteousness [are] all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.
All of them [are] plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.
To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, ‘That there is no dawn to it.’
Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what — have they?
and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth [him] to know;
and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;