The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of heart.

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

When its branches are dried up, they shall be broken off; the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your sons.

And these things they will do to you because they do not know the Father nor Me.

For I bear witness of them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to full true knowledge.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in full true knowledge and all discernment,

for their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood.

He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he who is impatient exalts folly.

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone who is hasty only to poverty.

Do not be quick to start a quarrel, lest you know not what to do in the end of it, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and does not recognize that poverty will come upon him.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hastened to deceit,

Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I have founded in Zion a Stone, a tried Stone, a precious Cornerstone, a sure Foundation; he who trusts in It shall not be anxious.