The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:

My son, if sinners entice you, consent not.

My son, walk not in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:

My son, if you will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with you;

My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.

My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

For I was my father's son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.

My son, attend to my words; incline your ear unto my sayings.

My son, be attentive to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:

And why will you, my son, be infatuated with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a seductress?

My son, if you become surety for your friend, if you have struck your hand with a stranger,

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and plead with your friend.

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.

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

He that gathers in summer is a wise son: but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.

The labor of the righteous leads to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

In the multitude of words there lacks not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who is without discretion.

A wise son hears his father's instruction: but a scoffer hears not rebuke.

He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.

Fools make a mockery of sin: but among the righteous there is favor.

Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish man despises his mother.

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.

He that mistreats his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings reproach.

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to stray from the words of knowledge.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

A haughty look, a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scoffer is an abomination to men.

My son, eat honey because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste:

My son, fear the LORD and the king: and associate not with them that are given to change:

For better it is that it be said unto you, Come up here; than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince whom your eyes have seen.

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

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

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproaches me.

Whosoever keeps the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of gluttonous men shames his father.

Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul.

He that carefully brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son in the end.

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? who has gathered the wind in his fists? who has bound the waters in a garment? who has established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you can tell?

What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?

She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.