To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

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

It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

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

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

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

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

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

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

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

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

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

They are all plain to him that understandeth, 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.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

To call passengers who go right on their ways:

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

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

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

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

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace is joy.

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

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

A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

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

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.