Ecclesiastes 7:5-12

⁵It is better to be reproved of a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattering of fools;

⁶for as the sound of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughing of a fool. But also this is vanity.

⁷False challenge troubleth a wise man, and it shall lose the strength of his heart.

⁸Forsooth the end of prayer is better than the beginning. A patient man is better than a proud man.

⁹Be thou not swift to be wroth; for ire resteth in the bosom of a fool.

¹⁰Say thou not, What guessest thou is the cause, that the former times were better than be now? for why such asking is fond or foolish.

¹¹Forsooth wisdom with riches is more profitable, and profiteth more to men seeing the sun.

¹²For as wisdom defendeth, so money defendeth; but learning and wisdom have this moreover, that those give life to them that have them.