For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.

at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:

"How long will you simpletons love naivet?? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

She will place a fair garland on your head; she will bestow a beautiful crown on you."

For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.

Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.

But the one who does not find me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death."

Do not reprove a mocker or he will hate you; reprove a wise person and he will love you.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the speech of the wicked conceals violence.

All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him -- he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.

I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.

Don't set foot too frequently in your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will reward you.

When the wicked gain control, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

Bloodthirsty people hate someone with integrity; as for the upright, they seek his life.