Cast in thy lot among us, we shall have all one purse."

But in vain is the net laid forth before the bird's eyes.

Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.

These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.

Wisdom crieth without and putteth forth her voice in the streets.

She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and showeth her words through the city, saying,

"O ye children, how long will ye love childishness? How long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge?

Therefore shall I also laugh in your destruction, and mock you, when the thing that ye fear cometh upon you:

even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea, when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you.

Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and be filled with their own counsels:

for the turning away of the unwise shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall be their own destruction.

He keepeth them in the right path, and preserveth the way of his saints.

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and thy soul delighteth in knowledge;

From such as leave the high street, and walk in the ways of darkness;

Which rejoice in doing evil, and delight in wicked things:

That thou mayest be delivered also from the strange woman, and from her that is not thine own: which giveth sweet words,

All they that go in unto her, come not again, neither take they hold of the way of life.

Therefore walk thou in the good way, and keep the paths of the righteous.

For the just shall dwell in the land, and the innocent shall remain in it.

Let mercy and faithfulness never go from thee: bind them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thine heart.

So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and men.

Put thy trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.

In all thy ways have respect unto him, and he shall order thy goings.

Be not wise in thine own conceit, but fear the LORD, and depart from evil:

So shall thy barns be filled with plenteousness, and thy presses shall flow over with sweet wine.

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither faint when thou are rebuked of him.

For whom the LORD loveth, him he chasteneth: and yet delighteth in him even as a father in his own son.

Then shalt thou walk safely in thy way, and thy foot shall not stumble.

Thou needest not to be afraid of any sudden fear, neither for the violent rushing of the ungodly, when it cometh.

whereas thou hast now to give him. Intend no hurt unto thy neighbour, seeing he hopeth to dwell in rest by thee.

The curse of the LORD is in the house of the ungodly, but he blesseth the dwellings of the righteous.

The wise shall have honour in possession, but shame is the promotion that fools shall have.

For when I myself was my father's dear son, and tenderly beloved of my mother,

I will show thee the way of wisdom, and lead thee in the right paths.

So that if thou goest therein, there shall no straitness hinder thee: and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.

Come not in the path of the ungodly, and walk not in the way of the wicked.

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of robbery.

Let them not depart from thine eyes, keep them even in the midst of thine heart.

That other men be not filled with thy goods, and that thy labours come not in a strange house.

Yea, that thou mourn not at the last, when thou hast spent thy body and goods,

I am come almost into all misfortune, in the midst of the multitude and congregation."

Drink of the water of thine own well, and of the rivers that run out of thine own springs.

Let thy wells flow out abroad, that there may be rivers of water in the streets:

but let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

My son, why wilt thou have pleasure in a harlot, and embrace the bosom of another woman?

For every man's ways are open in the sight of the LORD, and he pondereth all their goings.

The wickedness of the ungodly shall catch himself, and with the snares of his own sins shall he be trapped.

yea, thou art bound with thine own words, and taken with thine own speech.

Therefore my son, do this: and thou shalt be discharged, when thou art come into thy neighbour's danger. Go thy ways then soon, and entreat thy neighbour:

yet in the summer she provideth her meat, and gathereth her food together in the harvest.

How long wilt thou sleep, thou sluggish man? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thy hands together yet a little, that thou mayest sleep:

so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.

An ungodly person, a wicked man goeth with a froward mouth,

he is ever imagining mischief and frowardness in his heart, and causeth discord.

a heart that goeth about with wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to do mischief,

a false witness that bringeth up lies, and such one as soweth discord among brethren.

Put them up together in thine heart, and bind them about thy neck.

That they may lead thee where thou goest, preserve thee when thou art asleep, and that when thou awakest, thou mayest talk of them.

that thou lust not after her beauty in thine heart, and lest thou be taken with her fair looks.

May a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burnt?

Or can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be hurt?

Even so, whosoever goeth in to his neighbour's wife, and toucheth her, can not be unguilty.

Men do not utterly despise a thief, that stealeth to satisfy his soul, when he is hungry:

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman, he is a fool: and destroyeth his own soul.

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them in the table of thine heart.

and beheld the simple people: and among other young folks I spied one young fool

going over the streets, by the corner, in the way toward the harlot's house;

in the twilight of the evening, when it began now to be night and dark.

She was full of loud words and ready to dally: whose feet could not abide in the house.

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lurketh in every corner.

He hath taken the bag of money with him: who can tell when he cometh home?"

suddenly to follow her - as it were an ox to the slaughter, and like as it were a fool that laugheth when he goeth to the stocks to be punished -

Let not thine heart wander in her ways, and be thou not deceived in her paths.

For many a one hath she wounded and cast down, yea many a strong man hath she slain.

Standeth she not in the high places in the streets and ways?

Doth she not cry before the whole city, and in the gates where men go out and in?

Take heed unto knowledge, O ye ignorant; be wise in heart, O ye fools.

"I, wisdom, have my dwelling with knowledge, and prudent counsel is mine own.

I walk in the way of righteousness, and in the street of judgment:

"The LORD himself had me in possession in the beginning of his ways, before he began his works afore time.

When I was born, there were neither depths nor springs of water.

For when he made the heavens, I was present; when he set up the depths in order;

when he hanged the clouds above; when he fastened the springs of the deep;

When he shut the sea within certain bounds, that the waters should not go over their marks. When he laid the foundations of the earth,

But whoso offendeth against me, hurteth his own soul. All they that hate me, are the lovers of death."

She hath killed her victuals, poured out her wine, and prepared her table.

"O come on your way, eat my bread, and drink my wine, which I have poured out for you.

Forsake ignorance, and ye shall live: and see that ye go in the way of understanding."

Give a discrete man but an occasion, and he will be the wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase.

If thou be wise, thy wisdom shall do thyself good: but if thou thinkest scorn thereof, it shall be thine own harm.

A foolish restless woman, full of words, and such one as hath no knowledge,

sitteth in the doors of her house upon a stool above in the city,

to call such as go by, and walk straight in their ways.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.

An idle hand maketh poor; but a quick laboring hand maketh rich.

Whoso gathereth in summer is wise; but he that is sluggish in harvest, bringeth himself to confusion.

A wise man will receive warning; but a fool will sooner be smitten in the face.

He that leadeth an innocent life, walketh surely; but whoso goeth a wrong way, shall be known.

In the lips of him that hath understanding a man shall find wisdom; but the rod belongeth to the back of the foolish.