Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:

Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

But you have ignored all my counsel, and would have none of my reproof:

They would have none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

Say not unto your neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it with you.

I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.

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

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!

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

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and plead with your friend.

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

Therefore came I forth to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with colored spreads, with fine linen of Egypt.

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

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

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

Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mixed.

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

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

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

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

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

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

That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to you this day, even to you.

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

If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.

The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and waste your sweet words.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy in him.

They have stricken me, you shall say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your hope shall not be cut off.

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have partiality in judgment.

For better it is that it be said unto you, Come up here; than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince whom your eyes have seen.

Have you found honey? eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it, and vomit it.

And you shall have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidservants.

Whosoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whosoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.

He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows after worthless pursuits shall have poverty enough.

He that gives unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hides his eyes shall have many a curse.

He that carefully brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son in the end.

Surely I am more senseless than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

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

Two things have I required of you; deny me not them before I die:

This is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.

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

If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.

The heart of her husband does safely trust in her, so that he shall have no lack of gain.

Many daughters have done virtuously, but you excel them all.