² in order to incline your ear toward wisdom,
    then you shall apply your heart to understanding.
³ For if you cry out for understanding,^[a]
    if you lift^[b] your voice for insight,
⁴ if you seek her like silver
    and search her out like treasure,^[c]
5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh,
    and the knowledge of God you will find.
⁶ For Yahweh will give wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
⁷ For the upright, he stores^[d] sound judgment, a shield for those who walk uprightly,

⁵ Trust Yahweh^[a] with all your heart;
    do not lean toward your own understanding.

⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none,
    but knowledge comes easily to him who understands.^[a]

²⁹ He who is slow to anger has great understanding,
    but the hasty of spirit^[a] exalts folly.

³³ In the heart^[a] of him who has understanding, wisdom rests,
    but even in the midst of fools it becomes known.

³² He who ignores instruction despises himself,^[a]
    but he who hears admonition gains heart.^[b]

²¹ The wise of heart^[a] is called perceptive,
    but he who is pleasant of lips will increase persuasiveness.

¹⁰ A rebuke strikes him who understands
    deeper than one hundred blows to a fool.

²⁷ He who spares his sayings knows knowledge,
    and a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

² A fool will not take pleasure in understanding,
    but in expressing his heart.^[a]