Sirach 21:11-13

Good News Translation

Wisdom and Foolishness

¹¹ Whoever wants to keep the Law must learn what the Law means. If you fear the Lord in every sense of the term, you will have wisdom. ¹² You have to be intelligent to learn anything; but there is such a thing as just pretending to be intelligent, which only makes people bitter. ¹³ A wise person's knowledge is like a river that never runs dry, like an everflowing stream of good advice.