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“Come in with me,” she urges the simple.
    To those who lack good judgment, she says,

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16 “Come in with me,” she urges the simple.
    To those who lack good judgment, she says,

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13 Wise words come from the lips of people with understanding,
    but those lacking sense will be beaten with a rod.

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30 I walked by the field of a lazy person,
    the vineyard of one with no common sense.
31 I saw that it was overgrown with nettles.
    It was covered with weeds,
    and its walls were broken down.
32 Then, as I looked and thought about it,
    I learned this lesson:
33 A little extra sleep, a little more slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest—
34 then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit;
    scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

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Don’t demand an audience with the king
    or push for a place among the great.
It’s better to wait for an invitation to the head table
    than to be sent away in public disgrace.

Just because you’ve seen something,

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