²⁷ Just as it is harmful to eat too much honey, so also it is bad for men to think about all the honors they deserve!

¹² There is one thing worse than a fool, and that is a man who is conceited.

27 Don’t brag about your plans for tomorrow—wait and see what happens.

² Don’t praise yourself; let others do it!

¹¹ Rich men are conceited, but their real poverty is evident to the poor.

²⁵ Greed causes fighting; trusting God leads to prosperity.

²³ Pride ends in a fall, while humility brings honor.

² I am tired out, O God, and ready to die. I am too stupid even to call myself a human being! ³ I cannot understand man,^[a] let alone God. ⁴ Who else but God goes back and forth to heaven? Who else holds the wind in his fists and wraps up the oceans in his cloak? Who but God has created the world? If there is any other, what is his name—and his Son’s name—if you know it?

^21-23 There are three things that make the earth tremble—no, four it cannot stand:

^29-31 There are three stately monarchs in the earth—no, four:

³² If you have been a fool by being proud or plotting evil, don’t brag about it—cover your mouth with your hand in shame.

³³ As the churning of cream yields butter, and a blow to the nose causes bleeding, so anger causes quarrels.

³⁰ Charm can be deceptive and beauty doesn’t last, but a woman who fears and reverences God shall be greatly praised.