¹⁴ The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,^(A)
    turning a person from the snares of death.^(B)

²⁴ The wealth of the wise is their crown,
    but the folly of fools yields folly.^(A)

²⁴ The path of life leads upward for the prudent
    to keep them from going down to the realm of the dead.

²² Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent,^(A)
    but folly brings punishment to fools.

¹² Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
    than a fool bent on folly.^(A)