The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.