cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;

and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.

and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!

and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;

Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:

therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.

I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;

I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength.

Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine that I have mingled.

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

A wise servant shall rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren.

Good living beseemeth not a fool; how much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

He that soweth unrighteousness shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his wrath shall have an end.

That thy confidence may be in Jehovah, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.

Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge,

Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set.

Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.

The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise son shall have joy of him:

let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.

'They have smitten me, and I am not sore; they have beaten me, and I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.''

These things also come from the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless shall have poverty enough.

To have respect of persons is not good; but for a piece of bread will a man transgress.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; but he that withdraweth his eyes shall have many a curse.

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall in the end have him as a son.

Truly I am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence.

I have neither learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy.

Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;

There are three things which have a stately step, and four are comely in going:

The heart of her husband confideth in her, and he shall have no lack of spoil.

Many daughters have done worthily, but thou excellest them all.