If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

Do not say to your neighbor, "Go! Return tomorrow and I will give it," when you have it with you at the time.

And you will say, "How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!

Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding a close relative,

"Whoever is naive, let him turn in here," she says to those who lack understanding.

"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here," she says to those who lack understanding.

What the righteous say is like the best silver, but what the wicked think is of little value.

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

"It's worthless! It's worthless!" says the buyer, but when he goes on his way, he boasts.

Do not say, "I will pay back evil!" Wait for the Lord, so that he may vindicate you.

The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!"

for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you;

You will say, "They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink."

If you say, "But we did not know about this," does not the one who evaluates hearts consider? Does not the one who guards your life know? Will he not repay each person according to his deeds?

The one who says to the guilty, "You are innocent," peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him.

Do not say, "I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will pay him back according to what he has done."

for it is better for him to say to you, "Come up here," than to put you lower before a prince, whom your eyes have seen.

The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!"

so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only joking?"

The one who robs his father and mother and says, "There is no transgression," is a companion to the one who destroys.

The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh; an oracle: This man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and to Ukal:

lest I become satisfied and act deceptively and say, "Who is the Lord?" Or lest I become poor and steal and demean the name of my God.

The leech has two daughters: "Give! Give!" There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, "Enough" --

the grave, the barren womb, land that is not satisfied with water, and fire that never says, "Enough!"

This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, "I have not done wrong."