For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?

If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; A crown of beauty will she deliver to thee.

Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

Blessings are upon the head of the righteous; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

He that withholdeth grain, the people shall curse him; But blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

He that giveth heed unto the word shall find good; And whoso trusteth in Jehovah, happy is he.

The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; And a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from him! He pursueth them with words, but they are gone.

The glory of young men is their strength; And the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, So the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor's house, Lest he be weary of thee, and hate thee.

For thou wilt heap coals of fire upon his head, And Jehovah will reward thee.

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife.

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; But when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; But when they perish, the righteous increase.

The bloodthirsty hate him that is perfect; And as for the upright, they seek his life.

A servant will not be corrected by words; For though he understand, he will not give heed.