let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

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

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

"They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."

for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

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

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

Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? 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, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

"For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can't bear up:

the greyhound, the male goat also; and the king against whom there is no rising up.

"If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.

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