Wisdom is better than strength: and a wise man is better than a strong man. 2Hear, therefore, ye kings, and understand, learn ye that are judges of the ends of the earth. 3Give ear, you that rule the people, and that please yourselves in multitudes of nations: 4For power is given you by the Lord, and strength by the most High, who will examine your works: and search out your thoughts: 5Because being ministers of his kingdom, you have not judged rightly, nor kept the law of justice, nor walked according to the will of God. 6Horribly and speedily will he appear to you: for a most severe judgment shall be for them that bear rule. 7For to him that is little, mercy is granted: but the mighty shall be mightily tormented. 8For God will not except any man's person, neither will he stand in awe of any man's greatness: for he made the little and the great, and he hath equally care of all. 9But a greater punishment is ready for the more mighty. 10To you, therefore, O kings, are these my words, that you may learn wisdom, and not fall from it. 11For they that have kept just things justly, shall be justified: and they that have learned these things, shall find what to answer.