the wise hears and increases learning; and understanding ones get wisdom;

to understand a proverb and its meaning; the words of the wise, and their acute sayings.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause;

let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit;

cast in your lot among us, and let us have one purse.

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird,

when your fear comes as a wasting away, and your ruin comes like a tempest when trouble and pain come upon you.

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,

He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly.

When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasing to your soul;

whose ways are crooked, and are devious in their paths.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Jehovah and depart from evil.

for whom Jehovah loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding.

For the profit from it is better than the gain from silver, and its produce more than fine gold;

she is more precious than rubies; and all the things you can desire are not to be compared with her.

Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand, riches and honor.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her; and happy is everyone who keeps her.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

For the crooked man is hateful to Jehovah, but His secret is with the righteous.

The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; but He blesses the home of the just.

The wise shall inherit glory; but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

Wisdom is the main thing; get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Take fast hold of instruction; do not let go; keep her; for she is your life.

For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.

For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her palate is smoother than oil;

but afterward she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Should your overflowing spring be scattered abroad as rivers of waters in the streets.

Deliver yourself as a gazelle from the hunter's hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Go to the ant, sluggard; consider her ways and be wise;

so shall your poverty come as one who travels, and your need like an armed man.

perversity is in his heart; he is always planning mischief; he causes fighting.

Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; he is quickly broken, and there is no healing.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life;

So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.

They do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

but if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the goods of his house.

For jealousy is the rage of a man; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

Keep my commandments and live; and keep my law as the pupil of your eye.

She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay in her house;

now she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us delight ourselves with caresses.

For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey;

until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare and does not know that it is for his soul.

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the rooms of death.

To you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is hateful to my lips.

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; nothing twisted or perverse is in them.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; I hate pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the wicked mouth.

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and what I give is better than choice silver.

Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

Do not reprove a scorner, lest he hate you; give to a wise man, and he will love you.

Give to a wise one, and he will be still wiser; teach a just one, and he will increase in learning.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself; but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.

A foolish woman is noisy; she is simple and knows nothing.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

He who gathers in summer is a wise son; but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

The memory of the just is blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot.

The wise in heart will receive commandments; but a babbling fool shall fall.

The mouth of a righteous one is a well of life; but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

In the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him who is without understanding.

Wise ones store up knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the ruin of the poor is their poverty.

He who keeps instruction is in the way of life; but he who refuses reproof goes astray.

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

In the multitude of words, sin is not lacking; but he who holds back his lips is wise.

The tongue of the just is as choice silver; the heart of the wicked is worth little.

To work out evil devices is as laughter to a fool; so wisdom is to a man of understanding.

As the storm passes, so the wicked is no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Like vinegar to the teeth, and like smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

The hope of the righteous is gladness; but the hope of the wicked shall perish.

The way of Jehovah is strength to the upright; but ruin is to the workers of iniquity.

The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing; but the mouth of the wicked what is contrary.

False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.

Pride comes, then shame comes; but with the lowly is wisdom.

The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his place.

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; and when the wicked are destroyed, there is singing.

By the blessing of the upright the city is lifted up, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

One going with slander is a revealer of secrets, but the faithful of spirit keeps the matter hidden.

Where there is no wisdom, the people fall; but in the multitude of wise men there is safety.

He who is surety for a stranger shall be ruined; and he who hates suretyship is safe.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

So righteousness tends to life; but one pursuing evil, it is to his own death.

Like a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who turns aside discretion.

The desire of the righteous is only good; the hope of the wicked is wrath.

There is one who scatters and yet increases; but one who withholds just due comes only to poverty.

He who withholds grain, the people shall curse him; but blessing is on the head of him who sells.

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he who takes souls is wise.

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge; but he who hates correction is like a brute animal.

A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband, but she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.

A man shall be praised according to his wisdom, but he who is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

Better is one despised, and having a servant, than he honoring himself and lacks bread.