For that they hated knowledge, and chose not the fear of Jehovah:

So that thou shalt go in the way of the good, and thou shalt watch the paths of the just

Till an arrow shall cleave his liver; as a bird hastening to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.

And he knew not that there the shades; her called ones in the depths of hades

There is scattering and yet adding; and the withholding more than right, only to want

Good is little with the fear of Jehovah more than much treasure and confusion with it

Good the cast down of spirit with the humble more than to divide the spoil with the proud.

A reproof will take hold upon, him understanding more than a hundred, blows the foolish.

A man of friends for making friendship: and there is love attaching more than a brother.

Hear counsel and receive instruction, so that thou shalt be wise in thy latter state.

Many purposes in a man's heart: and the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.

Take his garment that became surety for a stranger: and bind him by a pledge for strange women.

Good to dwell upon the corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community.

Good to dwell in the land of the desert rather than with a woman of contentions and anger.

A Name to be chosen rather than much riches, and good grace rather than gold.

Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.

For good to say to thee, Come up hither, rather than humbling thyself before the noble whom thine eye saw.

Good to dwell upon a corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community.

Sawest thou a man wise in his eyes? hope is for the foolish one more than for him.

The slothful one is wise in his eyes more than seven turning back a reason.

A stone is heavy and sand a burden, and the wrath of the foolish one heavy more than they two.

Thy friend and thy father's friend thou shalt not forsake; and thou shalt not go to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: good he dwelling near, more than a brother far off.

A man of evil eye hasted for riches, and knew not that want shall come upon him.

He reproving a man, afterwards shall find favor more than he smoothing the tongue.

Thou sawest a man hasty in his words: hope to the foolish one more than to him.

For I am brutish more than man, and not the understanding of a man to me.

She tasted that her traffic is good: her light will not go out by night