The naive inherit folly, but the shrewd are crowned with knowledge.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.

A fool’s annoyance is known at once, but the prudent overlooks an insult.

The shrewd person conceals knowledge, but foolish people publicize folly.

Every shrewd person acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.

The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.

A naive person believes everything, but the shrewd person discerns his steps.

A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it.

A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it.

Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Is it really true that God said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?”