A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
A man shall be commended according to (literally, according to the mouth of: a Hebrew idiom for in proportion to) his wisdom. God and His faithful people judge a man not according to the apparent success of an undertaking, but according to its spiritual "wisdom." Worldly men praise or condemn only according to the apparent success or failure.
But he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised - by God; and at last, man, when he is found out in his true character.