A wise man, will hear, and will increase learning, and a, discreet man, wise counsels, will acquire,

If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself, but, if thou scoff, alone, shalt thou bear it.

He that walketh with the wise, becometh wise, but, the friend of dullards, becometh foolish.

When the scoffer is punished, the simple, becometh wise, when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

All his anger, doth a dullard let go, but, a wise man, by keeping it back, stilleth it.

Give to a wise man, and he will be wiser still, Inform a righteous man, and he will increase learning.

Four, things there are, the small of the earth, - yet, they, are wiser than the wise: