Ecclesiastes 7:5-8

⁵It is better to listen to the rebuke of the wise than to listen to the song of fools.

⁶For like the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so also is the laughter of fools. This, too, is vapor.

⁷Extortion certainly makes a wise man foolish, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

⁸Better is the end of a matter than the beginning; and the people patient in spirit are better than the proud in spirit.