⁴ “Come, you simple ones without good judgment;

¹⁶ “Come home with me,” she urges simpletons.

¹³ Men with common sense are admired^[a] as counselors; those without it are beaten as servants.

^30-31 I walked by the field of a certain lazy fellow and saw that it was overgrown with thorns; it was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down. ^32-33 Then, as I looked, I learned this lesson:

^6-7 Don’t demand an audience with the king as though you were some powerful prince. It is better to wait for an invitation rather than to be sent back to the end of the line, publicly disgraced!