If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause;

And they lie in wait for their own blood; they watch secretly for their own lives.

So are the ways of everyone who gains unjust gain; it takes away its owners' life.

Turn at my warning; behold, I will pour out my Spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.

Because I called, and you refused; I stretched out my hand, and no one paid attention;

I also will laugh at your trouble; I will mock when your fear comes;

and they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own desires.

For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

for they shall add length of days, and long life, and peace to you.

For the profit from it is better than the gain from silver, and its produce more than fine gold;

Do not be afraid of sudden fear, nor of the destroying of the wicked, when it comes.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Do not say to your neighbor, Go and come back again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it beside you:

Avoid it; do not pass by it; turn from it, and pass on!

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.

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

Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.

Like the loving deer and pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love.

How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.

Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul.

For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice,

now she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

so I came out to meet you, earnestly to seek your face, and I have found you.

For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey;

he has taken a bag of silver with him and will come home at the day of the full moon.

until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare and does not know that it is for his soul.

She cries in the gates, before the entrance of the city, at the doors.

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

I, wisdom, dwell with sense, and find out knowledge of discretions.

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and what I give is better than choice silver.

even I was a workman at His side; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him;

Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars;

She has sent out her young women; she cries upon the highest places of the city,

Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.

If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself; but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.

For she sits at the door of her house, in a seat in the high places of the city,

The blessing of Jehovah itself makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.

To work out evil devices is as laughter to a fool; so wisdom is to a man of understanding.

What the wicked fears shall come upon him; but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom; but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing; but the mouth of the wicked what is contrary.

False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.

The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his place.

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; and when the wicked are destroyed, there is singing.

By the blessing of the upright the city is lifted up, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

So righteousness tends to life; but one pursuing evil, it is to his own death.

There is one who scatters and yet increases; but one who withholds just due comes only to poverty.

He who carefully seeks good gets favor; but he who seeks mischief, it shall come to him.

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

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips, but the just shall come out of trouble.

A wise man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools cries out foolishness.

Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop, but a good word makes it glad.

From the fruit of his mouth a man shall eat good, but the soul of the treacherous eats violence.

He who keeps his mouth keeps his life; he who opens his lips wide, it is ruin to him.

There are those who act rich, yet have nothing; and those who act poor, yet have great riches.

The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

The desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but it is hateful to fools to turn from evil.

Much food is in the plowed ground of the poor, but when there is no justice, it is swept away.

A wise woman builds her house, but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.

A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

Fools laugh at sin, but among the righteous there is favor.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.

The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but among fools it is made known.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but crookedness in it is a break in the spirit.

Better is a little with the fear of Jehovah than great treasure and tumult with it.

Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!

Jehovah will destroy the house of the proud, but He will set up the border of the widow.

The heart of the righteous studies to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

When a man's ways please Jehovah, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

A just weight and balance are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are His work.

It is a hateful thing for kings to commit wickedness; for the throne is established by righteousness.

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death, but a wise man will quiet it.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver!

It is better to be of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Understanding is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.

He who labors works for himself, for his mouth craves it from him.

The gray head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.

The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing of it is from Jehovah.

Better is a dry piece of bread, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices with fighting.

Whoever scorns the poor reviles his Maker; he who is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

A bribe is like a precious stone in the eyes of him who has it; wherever he turns, he is prudent.

The beginning of strife is like letting out water; therefore leave off fighting, before it breaks out.

Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, since he has no heart for it?

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for the time of trouble.

He who fathers a fool does it to his sorrow; the father of a fool has no joy.

A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

And it is not good to punish the just, nor to strike princes for uprightness.

He that separates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound wisdom.

It is not good to favor the person of the wicked, nor to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

The name of Jehovah is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.