My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,

He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,

The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up to public contempt.

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

When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.

My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.

Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

Those who are wise store up knowledge, but foolish speech leads to imminent destruction.

The righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked turns up in his stead.

The one who puts up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands will be secure.

The one who neglects discipline ends up in poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored.

A benevolent person leaves an inheritance for his grandchildren, but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous.

A gentle response turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.

A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.

A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire.

The one who lacks wisdom strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.

A cheerful heart brings good healing, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach.

The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich -- both end up only in poverty.

Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.

you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.

Although a righteous person may fall seven times, he gets up again, but the wicked will be brought down by calamity.

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

for it is better for him to say to you, "Come up here," than to put you lower before a prince, whom your eyes have seen.

When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.

A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

The one who hates others disguises it with his lips, but he stores up deceit within him.

The greedy person stirs up dissension, but the one who trusts in the Lord will prosper.

An angry person stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person is abounding in transgression.

Who has ascended into heaven, and then descended? Who has gathered up the winds in his fists? Who has bound up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? -- if you know!

There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully.

Under three things the earth trembles, and under four things it cannot bear up:

For as the churning of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.

She also gets up while it is still night, and provides food for her household and a portion to her female servants.

Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also praises her: