פ (Pe) Your rules are marvelous. Therefore I observe them.

The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up to public contempt.

You who are naive, discern wisdom! And you fools, understand discernment!

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

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

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

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in disclosing what is on his mind.

The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and floggings for the backs of fools.

I am able to do all things through the one who strengthens me.

treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

O my soul, do not come into their council, do not be united to their assembly, my heart, for in their anger they have killed men, and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.

“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work, not arrogant, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for gain.

Indeed, any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people.

All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.