We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

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

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst 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.

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.

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

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

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

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

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

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

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

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

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

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

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.

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

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

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

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

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

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

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.

They that are of a froward 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 deceit.

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 regardeth the life of his beast: 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 ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth 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 seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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

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

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

Hell 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 hath a continual feast.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.

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

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

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

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

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

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

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

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

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

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

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

The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as 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 as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their 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 pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

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

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

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

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

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

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

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

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

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

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

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

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

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

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety.

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

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

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

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

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

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

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

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.