21. Don’t pay attention to everything people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you,
22. for you know that many times you yourself have cursed others.
23. I have tested all this by wisdom. I resolved, “I will be wise,” but it was beyond me.
24. What exists is beyond reach and very deep. Who can discover it?
25. I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and seek wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.