He who goes about as a gossip reveals secrets;
Therefore do not associate with a gossip [who talks freely or flatters].

Wisdom is too exalted for a [hardened, arrogant] fool;
He does not open his mouth in the gate [where the city’s rulers sit in judgment].

Surely I am more brutish and stupid than any man,
And I do not have the understanding of a man [for I do not know what I do not know].

There are three things which are too astounding and unexpectedly wonderful for me,
Four which I do not understand: