Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.

Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!

and I saw among the naive – I discerned among the youths – a young man who lacked wisdom.

The ear that hears and the eye that sees – the Lord has made them both.

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

lest the Lord see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

When I saw this, I gave careful consideration to it; I received instruction from what I saw:

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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

When the hay is removed and new grass appears, and the grass from the hills is gathered in,

When the wicked increase, transgression increases, but the righteous will see their downfall.

Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

for it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than to put you lower before a prince, whom your eyes have seen.