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Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither, as for him that lacketh sense, she saith to him -

Whoso is simple, let him turn aside hither, and, as for him that lacketh sense, she saith to him:

In the lips of the intelligent, is found wisdom, but, a rod, is for the back of him that lacketh sense.

By the field of the sluggard, I passed, and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense;

And lo! there had come up all over it - thorns, there had covered the face thereof - thistles, and, the stone fence thereof, had been thrown down.

So I observed it, for myself, I applied my heart, I looked - I accepted correction:

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest:

So shall come in, as a highwayman, thy poverty, and, thy want, as one armed with a shield.

Do not honour thyself before a king, nor, in the place of great men, do thou stand;

For better it be said to thee, Come up hither, - than that thou be put lower down before a noble, whom thine own eyes, have beheld.