Sirach 19:19-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ But the learning of wickedness is not wisdom: and the device of sinners is not prudence.

²⁰ There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and there is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom.

²¹ Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth understanding, with the fear of God, than he that aboundeth in understanding, and transgresseth the law of the most High.