²⁸ Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!

⁵ O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

² The tongue of the wise maketh knowledge good, And the mouth of fools uttereth folly.

¹⁴ And the fool multiplieth words: `Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

³ For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

³ And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, `He `is' a fool.'