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

18 An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends
    and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.

² Fools find no pleasure in understanding
    but delight in airing their own opinions.^(A)

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

¹² Who, then, are those who fear the Lord?^(A)
    He will instruct them in the ways^(B) they should choose.^[a]
13 They will spend their days in prosperity,^(C)
    and their descendants will inherit the land.^(D)
14 The Lord confides^(E) in those who fear him;
    he makes his covenant known^(F) to them.