19 Wisdom gives more strength to the wise than ten rulers who are in the city.
20 Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
21 Do not pay attention to everything people say, lest you hear your own servant curse you.
22 For your heart knows that you also have cursed others many times.
23 All this I have tested with wisdom. I said, “I will be wise!” but it was beyond my grasp.
24 Whatever is—it is far beyond comprehension. Who can discover it?
25 I set my mind to try to seek wisdom and the plan, and to know that wickedness is foolishness and that folly is delusion.