"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

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

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner.

Sheol and Abaddon are before the LORD?how much more then the hearts of the children of men.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold. Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him. He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

A man's steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind.

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes. Their eyelids are lifted up.