If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.

Do not say to your neighbor, "Go and return and tomorrow I will give [it]," {when it is with you}.

and say "How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!"

Say to wisdom, "you are my sister," and you shall call insight, "{intimate friend}."

"Whoever [is] simple, let him turn here." As for the one who lacks {sense}, she says to him,

"Whoever is simple, may he turn here!" As for he who lacks {sense}, she says to him,

Who will say "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

"Bad, bad," the buyer will say, but [when] one goes to him, then he will boast.

Do not say "I will repay evil"; wait for Yahweh and he will deliver you.

[It is] a snare to humankind to say rashly "[It is] holy," and after vows, to scrutinize.

A lazy person says "A lion in the street! In the middle of the highway, I shall be killed!"

For, like hair in his {throat}, so it is. "Eat and drink!" he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you.

if you say, "Look, we do not know this," does not he who weighs hearts perceive [it]? And he who keeps your soul, he knows and will repay humankind according to his deeds.

Whoever says to the guilty, "You are righteous," the people will curse him; the nations will abhor him.

Do not say, "Just as he has done to me, so shall I do to him; I will pay back the man according to his deed."

For [it is] better [that] he say to you, "Ascend here," than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen,

A lazy person says "A lion [is] in the road! A lion among the streets!"

so [is] a man who deceives his neighbor, but says "Am I not joking?"

He who robs his father and his mother and says, "There is no crime," is partner to a man who corrupts.

The words of Agur, son of Yakeh, the oracle. Thus says the man to Ithiel, to Ithiel, and Ucal:

Or else I will be satisfied and will deny [him] and say "Who [is] Yahweh?" Or I will be poor and will steal and profane the name of my God.

For the leech, [there are] two daughters; "Give, give!" [they cry]. As for three of these, they are not satisfied; as for four, they do not say enough.

Sheol and barrenness of womb, the land is not satisfied [with] water, and fire does not say "enough!"

This is the way of a woman committing adultery: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says "I have not done wrong."