¹² But where can wisdom be found?^(A)
    Where does understanding dwell?^(B)

³⁶ Who gives the ibis wisdom^[a](A)
    or gives the rooster understanding?^[b](B)

“I am determined to be wise”^(A)—
    but this was beyond me.

²⁵ So I turned my mind to understand,
    to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things^(A)
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
    and the madness of folly.^(B)