The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.

If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:

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

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

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

Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be secure from the fear of evil.

Yea, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;

If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;

Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

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

For her house leads unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

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

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

Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.

For the gain from it is better than the gain from silver, and the profit thereof than fine gold.

Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the ruin from the wicked, when it comes.

For the LORD shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being snared.

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

For I give you good doctrine, forsake not my law.

For I was my father's son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother.

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

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

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

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

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

Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.

For the lips of an immoral woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:

Let them be only for your own, and not for strangers with you.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.

He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

My son, if you become surety for your friend, if you have struck your hand with a stranger,

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

For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will prey upon his precious life.

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

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

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

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

Till an arrow strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.

For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and from the opening of my lips shall come right things.

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

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 perverse mouth, do I hate.

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

For whosoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.

Whosoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that lacks understanding, she says to him,

He that reproves a scoffer gets for himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself injury.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.

If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scoff, you alone shall bear it.

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

Whosoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him that lacks understanding, she says to him,

In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

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

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

The fear of the LORD prolongs days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

He that is surety for a stranger shall suffer for it: and he that hates being surety is secure.

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

The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

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

Much food is in the fallow ground of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for lack of justice.

In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to turn one away from the snares of death.

Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with trouble.

The LORD is far from the wicked: but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honor is humility.

The LORD has made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

He that labors labors for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.

An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.

Whosoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

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

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Also, to punish the just is not good, nor to flog princes for their integrity.

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for blows.

A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursues them with words, yet they are nothing to him.

Luxury is not fitting for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if you deliver him, yet you must do it again.

The fear of the LORD leads to life: and he that has it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

Judgments are prepared for scoffers and stripes for the back of fools.

The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whosoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

Take his garment who is surety for a stranger: and hold it as a pledge of him for an immoral woman.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

The way of man is perverse and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked: but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.

The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

The desire of the slothful kills him; for his hands refuse to labor.

A wicked man hardens his face: but as for the upright, he considers his way.

The horse is prepared for the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.