21. Also do not take to heart all the words they speak, lest you hear your servant cursing you.
22. For you know in your heart that many times you have cursed others.
23. All this I have proved by wisdom. I said, “I am wise,” but it was far from me.
24. That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep – who does find it?
25. I have turned round, even my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom and a conclusion, to know the wrongness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.