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.

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:

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

For they shalt be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.

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

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words.

But whoever hearkeneth to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

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

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

When wisdom entereth into thy heart, and knowledge is pleasant to thy soul;

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 who flattereth with her words;

For her house inclineth to death, and her paths to the dead.

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

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

Trust in the LORD with all thy heart; and lean not to thy own understanding.

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 to 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 to thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

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

Say not to thy neighbor, 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.

Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace to the lowly.

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

He taught me also, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

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

She shall give to thy 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 to the perfect day.

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

For they are life to 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 to my wisdom, and bow thy ear to my understanding:

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

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

Lest thou give thy honor to others, and thy years to the cruel:

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my 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 thy eyes, nor slumber to thy 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:

These six things doth the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination to him:

A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

Bind them continually upon thy 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 lewd 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 neighbor's wife; whoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Men do not despise a thief, if he stealeth 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.

Say to wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

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

So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,

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

Therefore I came 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 impelled him.

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

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

Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Let not thy 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.

To 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 arrogance, 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:

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

Whoever 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:

Whoever 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 labor 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 diligently seeketh good procureth favor: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come to him.

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.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered to him.