¹⁸ The simple have inherited folly, And the prudent are crowned `with' knowledge.

³⁵ Honour do the wise inherit, And fools are bearing away shame!

¹⁸ having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

²⁹ `Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,

³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

³¹ So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;

³² and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers.

³ And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.

¹⁷ for we certainly do everything that hath gone out of our mouth, to make perfume to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our heads, in cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, and -- we are satisfied with bread, and we are well, and evil we have not seen.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

²⁹ Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant `is' the fool to the wise of heart.

³⁰ The fruit of the righteous `is' a tree of life, And whoso is taking souls `is' wise.

⁷ The first thing `is' wisdom -- get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.

⁸ Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her.

⁹ She giveth to thy head a wreath of grace, A crown of beauty she doth give thee freely.

⁴ and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.