As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from this time forth even forever.

Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

The LORD has done great things for us; and we are glad.

Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusts in them.

O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us.

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there.

Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.

I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.

How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.

Who imagine evil in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

I said unto the LORD, you are my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.

When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood upon the earth.

But my eyes are unto you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

I cried unto you, O LORD: I said, you are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

Teach me to do your will; for you are my God: your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

The LORD upholds all that fall, and raises up all those that are bowed down.

The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous:

So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of its owners.

Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared unto her.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

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

Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, that you can not know them.

And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.

You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Say unto wisdom, you are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

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

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

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

If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scoff, you alone shall bear it.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of the grave.

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

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

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

A righteous man regards the life of his animal: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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

The slothful man roasts not that which he took in hunting: but the possessions of a diligent man are precious.

The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor hears not rebuke.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Sheol and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart has a continual feast.

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

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.

A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights in the bag are his work.

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

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is their fathers.

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

Wisdom is before him that has understanding; but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom like a flowing brook.

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

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

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and contentions are like the bars of a castle.

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.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

House and riches are the inheritance from fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

There are many plans in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

Judgments are prepared for scoffers and stripes for the back of fools.

The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

Diverse weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

A man's steps are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honor, and life.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that does keep his soul shall be far from them.

And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

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

Deliver those that are drawn toward death, hold back those that are stumbling to the slaughter;

My son, fear the LORD and the king: and associate not with them that are given to change:

He that says unto the wicked, you are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied.

The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.