21. Don't pay attention to everything people say — you may hear your servant insulting you,
22. and you know yourself that you have insulted other people many times.
23. I used my wisdom to test all of this. I was determined to be wise, but it was beyond me.
24. How can anyone discover what life means? It is too deep for us, too hard to understand.
25. But I devoted myself to knowledge and study; I was determined to find wisdom and the answers to my questions, and to learn how wicked and foolish stupidity is.