My frame was not hidden from thee, when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

LORD, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee.

On that day king Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman the Jews' enemy to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.

For every man who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, so that his works may not be exposed.

A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

Thou have built thy lofty place at the head of every way, and have made thy beauty an abomination. And have opened thy feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom.

Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty. Thou have corrupted thy wisdom because of thy brightness. I have cast thee to the ground. I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

But they will not advance in much more, for their folly will be evident to all men, as also that of those men came to be.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may reveal itself.

Yea also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone [that] he is a fool.

Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but [a thing] in the inward part of fools is made known.

A fool's vexation is instantly known, but a prudent man conceals shame.

Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.