23. There is a shrewdness that is detestable,while the fool may be free from sin.
24. Better are the God-fearing who have little understandingthan those of great intelligence who violate the Law.
25. There is a shrewdness keen but dishonest,and there are those who are duplicitous to win a judgment.
26. There is the villain bowed in grief,but full of deceit within.