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“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks judgment she says:

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks judgment she says:

Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment.

I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.

Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

for it is better that he says to you, “Come up here!” than demote you in the presence of the prince. Even what^(a) you have seen with your own eyes,