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

Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror;

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

Do not be afraid of sudden fear
Nor of the storm of the wicked when it comes [since you will be blameless];

When you walk, your steps will not be impeded [for your path will be clear and open];
And when you run, you will not stumble.

I was almost at utter ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation."

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

A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

A heart of wisdom will heed commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

The winking of an eye causes trouble, and the foolishness of lips comes to ruin.

The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool is near ruin.

The wealth of the rich is his strong city, The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

He who learns from instruction and correction is on the [right] path of life [and for others his example is a path toward wisdom and blessing],
But he who ignores and refuses correction goes off course [and for others his example is a path toward sin and ruin].

The way of Jehovah is strength to the perfect, And ruin to workers of iniquity.

The integrity of the upright, shall guide them, but, the crookedness of the treacherous, shall be their ruin.

He that becometh surety for a stranger, goeth to utter ruin, but, he that hateth striking hands, is secure.

The one who brings ruin on his household
will inherit the wind,
and a fool will be a slave
to someone whose heart is wise.

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips -- ruin to him!

In the multitude of people is the king's glory; but in the lack of people is the ruin of a prince.

In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

He who loves fighting loves transgression; he who makes his gate high seeks ruin.

One with a twisted mind will not succeed,
and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin.

Wisdom is directly in front of the discerning person, but the eyes of a fool run to the ends of the earth.

The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

A tower of strength is the name of Yahweh; into him the righteous will run and be safe.

A man of many friends will come to ruin but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

As for the folly of humankind, its way leads to ruin, and against Yahweh his heart will rage.

A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.

Discipline and teach your son while there is hope,
And do not [indulge your anger or resentment by imposing inappropriate punishment nor] desire his destruction.

The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, How the wicked are overthrown to their ruin.

It is joy to a righteous man to do what is right; but it is ruin for the workers of iniquity.

for the LORD will plead their case and ruin the lives of those who ruin them.

For their heart studies ruin, and their lips talk of mischief.

Though a righteous man falls seven times,
he will get up,
but the wicked will stumble into ruin.

For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Where the prince is without understanding, there is great oppression and wrong; but if he be such one as hateth covetousness, he shall long reign.

By justice a king gives stability [to] a land, but a man of bribes will ruin it.

When the lawless become great, transgression increaseth, but, the righteous, shall behold, their ruin.

Without revelation people run wild,
but one who listens to instruction will be happy.

For a servant when he shall reign; and the foolish one when he shall be filled with bread;

Do not give your [generative] strength to women [neither foreign wives in marriages of alliances, nor concubines],
Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.