19Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.
20There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
21Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.
22Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.
23All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
24Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?
25I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.
