Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

Give ear, for my words are true, and my lips are open to give out what is upright.

The lips of the upright man have knowledge of what is pleasing, but twisted are the mouths of evil-doers.

He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.

Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.

A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.

He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.

Lips of righteousness are the delight of kings; and he who says what is upright is dear to him.

A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.

A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.

He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;

Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.

Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

Evil men have no knowledge of what is right; but those who go after the Lord have knowledge of all things.

He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.

Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?

Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.