² “Are all these words to go unanswered?^(A)
    Is this talker to be vindicated?^(B)

² The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge,^(A)
    but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.^(B)

¹⁴     and fools multiply words.^(A)

No one knows what is coming—
    who can tell someone else what will happen after them?^(B)