If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers:

Say not to your neighbour, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it by you at the time.

Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.

Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.

For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.

Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.

Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.

The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.

The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.

When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.

The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.

A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.

He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.

The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.

In the sin of the lips is a net which takes the sinner, but the upright man will come out of trouble.

No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.

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

He who makes sport of the word will come to destruction, but the respecter of the law will be rewarded.

Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.

The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.

Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

Will not the designers of evil come into error? But mercy and good faith are for the designers of good.

A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.

Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.

An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.

Where there are no wise suggestions, purposes come to nothing; but by a number of wise guides they are made certain.

The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.

The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.

He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

A thing may be put to the decision of chance, but it comes about through the Lord.

It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.

The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

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

When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.

A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.

The man who first puts his cause before the judge seems to be in the right; but then his neighbour comes and puts his cause in its true light.

The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.

Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.

The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.

The man of wealth and the poor man come face to face: the Lord is the maker of them all.

Send away the man of pride, and argument will go out; truly fighting and shame will come to an end.

He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.

For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed

For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?

But those who say sharp words to him will have delight, and a blessing of good will come on them.

So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.

For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.

He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.

The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.

He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

When the upright have power, the people are glad; when an evil man is ruler, grief comes on the people.

The poor man and his creditor come face to face: the Lord gives light to their eyes equally.

The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.

The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh, from Massa. The man says: I am full of weariness, O God, I am full of weariness; O God, I have come to an end:

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?

The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.

For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.