for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.

I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;

in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will make plain thy paths.

With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.

By me kings reign, and rulers make just decrees;

Behold, the righteous shall be requited on the earth: how much more the wicked and the sinner.

Much food is in the tillage of the poor; but there is that is lost for want of judgment.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

Fools make a mock at trespass; but for the upright there is favour.

In the house of a righteous man is much treasure; but in the revenue of a wicked man is disturbance.

Sheol and destruction are before Jehovah; how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

That which enlighteneth the eyes rejoiceth the heart; good tidings make the bones fat.

How much better is it to get wisdom than fine gold, and the getting of intelligence to be preferred to silver!

Better is it to be of a humble spirit with the meek, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Excellent speech becometh not a vile man; how much less do lying lips a noble!

All the brethren of a poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him: he pursueth them with words, they are not to be found.

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

Plans are established by counsel; and with good advice make war.

It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is hallowed, and after vows to make inquiry.

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more when they bring it with a wicked purpose!

that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?

Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man;

For with good advice shalt thou make thy war; and in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be surfeited therewith, and vomit it.

It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is itself a weight.

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

Speak not too much about a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.

the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff;