To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

Coverlets, have I spread on my couch of pleasure, dark-hued stuffs, of the yarn of Egypt;

Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

He that is proud and presumptuous, is called a scornful man, which in wrath dare work maliciously.

Sawest thou a man apt in his works? Before kings shall he stand; he shall not stand before the dark ones

Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?

Wisdom is a high thing; yea, even to the fool, for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.