Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,

They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who obtains understanding.

Carrying out a wicked scheme is enjoyable to a fool, and so is wisdom for the one who has discernment.

The one who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.

Folly is a joy to one who lacks sense, but one who has understanding follows an upright course.

The truly wise person restrains his words, and the one who stays calm is discerning.

The one who acquires wisdom loves himself; the one who preserves understanding will prosper.

Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.

There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the Lord.

All your allies will force you from your homeland! Your treaty partners will deceive you and overpower you. Your trusted friends will set an ambush for you that will take you by surprise!

No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves: ‘I burned half of it in the fire – yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?’