For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.

If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:

And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

They would have none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you.

So shall they be life unto your soul, and grace to your neck.

For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

That they may keep you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words.

They are all plain to him that understands, and right to them that find knowledge.

Now therefore hearken unto me, O you children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

They that are of a perverse heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

Though they join hand to hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the descendants of the righteous shall be delivered.

Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Without counsel plans go wrong: but in the multitude of counselors they are established.

Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though they join hand in hand, none shall be unpunished.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaks what is right.

He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

The words of a talebearer are like tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursues them with words, yet they are nothing to him.

The violence of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do justice.

A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and casts down the stronghold in which they trust.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be fitted on your lips.

Be not desirous of his delicacies: for they are deceitful food.

Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

They have stricken me, you shall say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

The words of a talebearer are tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

Evil men understand not justice: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

When the wicked arise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

There are four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;

The badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks;

The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice of any of the afflicted.