²⁰ Where then does wisdom come from?
    Where does understanding dwell?^(A)

¹⁶ How much better to get wisdom than gold,
    to get insight^(A) rather than silver!^(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)