19 Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.
20 Surely there is not a righteous person on earth who does what is good and doesn’t sin.
21 Also, do not pay attention to every word people say, otherwise you might hear your servant mocking you—
22 for your heart knows that many times you too have mocked others.
23 All this I have tested with wisdom and I said, “I determined to be wise”—but it was far from me.
24 Whatever it may be, it is far off and very profound—who can fathom it?
25 So I turned my heart to understand, to search and seek out wisdom and an explanation of things and to know the stupidity of wickedness and madness of folly.