21. Don't pay attention to everything people say. If you do, you might hear your servant calling down a curse on you.
22. Many times you yourself have called down curses on others. Deep down inside, you know that's true.
23. I used wisdom to put all of those things to the test. I said, "I've made up my mind to be wise." But it was more than I could accomplish.
24. No matter what else wisdom may be, it's far away and very deep. Who can find it?
25. So I tried to understand wisdom more completely. I wanted to study it and figure it out. I tried to find out everything I could about it. I tried to understand why it's foolish to be evil. I wanted to see why choosing foolishness is so unwise.