2. Surely I am too brutish and stupid to be called a man, and I have not the understanding of a man [for all my secular learning is as nothing].
3. I have not learned skillful and godly Wisdom, that I should have the knowledge or burden of the Holy One.
4. Who has ascended into heaven and descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in His garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son's name, if you know? [John 3:13; Rev. 19:12.]
5. Every word of God is tried and purified; He is a shield to those who trust and take refuge in Him. [Ps. 18:30; 84:11; 115:9-11.]
6. Add not to His words, lest He reprove you, and you be found a liar.
7. Two things have I asked of You [O Lord]; deny them not to me before I die:
8. Remove far from me falsehood and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,
9. Lest I be full and deny You and say, Who is the Lord? Or lest I be poor and steal, and so profane the name of my God. [Deut. 8:12, 14, 17; Neh. 9:25, 26; Job 31:24; Hos. 13:6.]
10. Do not accuse and hurt a servant before his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty [of adding to the burdens of the lowly].
11. There is a class of people who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
12. There is a class of people who are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their own filth.
13. There is a class of people–oh, how lofty are their eyes and their raised eyelids!
14. There is a class of people whose teeth are as swords and whose fangs as knives, to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among men.
15. The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give! There are three things that are never satisfied, yes, four that do not say, It is enough: