How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?

I will teach thee in the way of wisdom, I will lead thee in paths of uprightness.

Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life.

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

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his garments not be burned?

Impart to a wise man, and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase learning.

The slothful roasteth not what he took in hunting; but man's precious substance is to the diligent.

Take his garment that is become surety for another, and hold him in pledge for strangers.

if thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Then I looked, I took it to heart; I saw, I received instruction:

Take away the dross from the silver, and there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner:

take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

As a dog turneth back to its vomit, so a fool repeateth his folly.

He that passing by vexeth himself with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

Take his garment that is become surety for another, and hold him in pledge for a strange woman.