¹⁵ Intelligent people are always ready to learn.
    Their ears are open for knowledge.

² Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good;
    haste makes mistakes.

²⁷ If you stop listening to instruction, my child,
    you will turn your back on knowledge.

¹² The Lord preserves those with knowledge,
    but he ruins the plans of the treacherous.

¹² Commit yourself to instruction;
    listen carefully to words of knowledge.

³ A house is built by wisdom
    and becomes strong through good sense.
⁴ Through knowledge its rooms are filled
    with all sorts of precious riches and valuables.

⁵ The wise are mightier than the strong,^[a]
    and those with knowledge grow stronger and stronger.

² When there is moral rot within a nation, its government topples easily.
    But wise and knowledgeable leaders bring stability.