²⁴ A discerning person keeps wisdom in view,
    but a fool’s eyes^(A) wander to the ends of the earth.

8 Who is like the wise?
    Who knows the explanation of things?
A person’s wisdom brightens their face
    and changes its hard appearance.

⁹ Better what the eye sees
    than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
    a chasing after the wind.^(A)

⁶ The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none,
    but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.^(A)

¹⁴ The discerning heart seeks knowledge,^(A)
    but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.