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;