<p class="poetry">Then they will call to me, but I will not answer;p> <p class="poetry">they will diligently seek<n id="1" /> me, but they will not find me.p>

<p class="poetry">I have not learned wisdom,p> <p class="poetry">nor do I have knowledge<n id="1" /> of the Holy One.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">None who go in to her will return,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">nor will they reach the paths of life.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For<n id="1" /> I did not obey my teachers<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and I did not heed<n id="3" /> my instructors.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">for jealousy kindles<n id="1" /> a husband&#8217;s<n id="2" /> rage,p> <p class="poetry">and he will not show mercy<n id="3" /> when he takes revenge.p>

<p class="poetry">But they do not realize<n id="1" /> that the dead<n id="2" /> are there,p> <p class="poetry">that her guests are in the depths of the grave.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The blessing<n id="1" /> from the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> makes a person rich,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and he adds no sorrow<n id="4" /> to<n id="5" /> it.p>

<p class="poetry">Whoever brings a fool<n id="1" /> into the world<n id="2" /> does so<n id="3" /> to his grief,p> <p class="poetry">and the father of a fool has no joy.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">All day long he craves greedily,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but the righteous gives and does not hold back.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Let another<n id="1" /> praise you, and not your own mouth;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">someone else,<n id="3" /> and not your own lips.p>

<p class="poetry">Surely<n id="1" /> I am more brutish<n id="2" /> than any other human being,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and I do not have human understanding;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">a lion, mightiest<n id="1" /> of the beasts,p> <p class="poetry">who does not retreat from anything;p>

<p class="poetry">She brings him<n id="1" /> good and not evil<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">all the days of her life.p>

<p class="poetry">He will not consider<n id="1" /> any compensation;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who shuts his ears<n id="1" /> to the cry<n id="2" /> of the poor,p> <p class="poetry">he too will cry out and will not be answered.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The stingy person<n id="1" /> hastens after richesp> <p class="poetry">and does not know that poverty will overtake him.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Whoever shares with a thief<n id="1" /> is his own enemy;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he hears the oath to testify,<n id="3" /> but does not talk.p>

<p class="poetry">till an arrow pierces his liver<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">like a bird hurrying into a trap,p> <p class="poetry">and he does not know that it will cost him his life.<n id="2" />p>