If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause;

Do not say to your neighbor, Go and come back again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it beside you:

and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;

Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinsman,

The simple one, let him turn in here. To one lacking heart, she says to him,

The simple one, let him turn in here. And to one lacking heart, she says to him,

Who can say, I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin?

It is bad! Bad, says the buyer; but when it is left to him, then he boasts.

Do not say, I will repay evil; wait on Jehovah, and He will save you.

It is a snare to a man to say rashly, A holy thing, and afterward vows to ask about it.

The lazy one says, There is a lion outside; I shall be killed in the streets.

for as he thinks in his heart, so is he; Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

If you say, Behold, we did not know; does not He who searches the heart consider it? And the Keeper of your soul, does He know? And He repays to a man according to his works.

He who says to the wicked, You are righteous; the people shall curse him and nations shall abhor him.

Do not say, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will give to the man according to his work.

The lazy one says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, Am I not joking?

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no sin; he shall be a companion to a destroyer.

lest I be full and deceive, and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor, and steal, and violate the name of my God.

The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give! Three things are never satisfied, yea, four things never say, Enough!

Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no evil.