²³ To execute inventions `is' as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

²¹ Folly is joy to one lacking heart, And a man of intelligence directeth `his' going.

¹⁴ Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

⁹ Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright -- a pleasing thing.

¹⁸ As `one' pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,

¹⁹ So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, `Am not I playing?'

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.