with kings and wise men of the earth, who built ruins for themselves,

He leads wise men away stripped, and makes the judges fools.

Would God ye kept your tongue, that ye might be taken for wise men!

Should a wise men utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.

Reasonable men will say to me,
along with the wise men who hear me,

Seeing then that everybody feareth him, why should not all wise men also stand in fear of him?"

Can a man be profitable to God? surely it is unto himself that the wise man is profitable.

“Were you the first man to be born [the original wise man],
Or were you created before the hills?

But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

Great men are not always wise, neither doth every aged man understand the thing that is lawful.

Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

How have you advised those not wise, or fully declared wise plans?

For a vain man will be wise, when a man is born a wild donkey's colt.

Wise in heart, and alert in vigour, What man hath hardened himself against him, and prospered!