The wise will hear and increase their learning,
And the person of understanding will acquire wise counsel and the skill [to steer his course wisely and lead others to the truth],

I also will laugh at your disaster;
I will mock when your dread and panic come,

She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine;
She has also set her table.

He who learns from instruction and correction is on the [right] path of life [and for others his example is a path toward wisdom and blessing],
But he who ignores and refuses correction goes off course [and for others his example is a path toward sin and ruin].

When pride comes [boiling up with an arrogant attitude of self-importance], then come dishonor and shame,
But with the humble [the teachable who have been chiseled by trial and who have learned to walk humbly with God] there is wisdom and soundness of mind.

It is also not good to fine the righteous,
Nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.

Buy truth, and do not sell it;
Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

She lurks and lies in wait like a robber [who waits for prey],
And she increases the faithless among men.

These also are sayings of the wise:
To show partiality in judgment is not good.

These are also the proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied:

Do not answer [nor pretend to agree with the frivolous comments of] a [closed-minded] fool according to his folly,
Otherwise you, even you, will be like him.

The strutting rooster, the male goat also,
And the king when his army is with him.