so that you attend to wisdom, you shall extend your heart to understanding;

in order that you may walk in the way of good and keep the paths of the righteous.

For the profit from it is better than the gain from silver, and its produce more than fine gold;

she is more precious than rubies; and all the things you can desire are not to be compared with her.

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

in order to keep discretion, that your lips may keep knowledge.

For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her palate is smoother than oil;

that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

a heart that plots wicked plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,

so that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare and does not know that it is for his soul.

Receive my instruction and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and what I give is better than choice silver.

when He gave to the sea its limit that the waters should not pass His command; when He appointed the foundations of the earth;

But he does not know that the dead are there; her guests are in the depths of hell.

Better is one despised, and having a servant, than he honoring himself and lacks bread.

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor, but the way of the wicked seduces them.

In the way of righteousness is life, and in that pathway there is no death.

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that joy is heaviness.

Better is a little with the fear of Jehovah than great treasure and tumult with it.

Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.

The way of life is above to the wise, so that he may turn away from hell below.

The ear that hears the reproof of life shall remain among the wise.

Better is a little with righteousness than great gain without right.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver!

It is better to be of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit is better than he who takes a city.

Better is a dry piece of bread, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices with fighting.

A reproof enters more into a wise man than a thousand stripes into a fool.

Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

He that separates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound wisdom.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may lay itself bare.

A man who has friends may be broken up, but there is a Lover who sticks closer than a brother.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Hear advice, and receive instruction, so that you may be wise in your latter end.

The charm of a man is his kindness, and a poor man is better than a liar.

To do justice and judgment is more pleasing to Jehovah than sacrifice.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a quarrelsome woman and to share a house.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a quarrelsome and angry woman.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches; and loving favor rather than silver or gold.

so that your trust may be in Jehovah, I have made known to you this day, even to you.

that I might make you know the sureness of the words of truth; to return the words of truth to those who send to you?

He shall kiss the lips that return right words.

for it is better that it should be said to you, Come up here, than that you should be put lower in the presence of a noble whom your eyes have seen.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with a quarreling woman and to share a house.

Answer a fool according to his foolishness, so that he may not be wise in his own eyes.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can give a reason.

A stone is heavy, and sand is heavy; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

Your own friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake them; nor go to your brother's house in the day of your trouble; better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

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

Take his robe that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for a strange woman.

Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness than he who is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.

He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and does not know that poverty will come upon him.

He who rebukes a man shall afterwards find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.

Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

He pampering his servant from youth, that one in his latter days shall be his successor.

Surely I am more like an animal than any man, and do not have the understanding of a man.

There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their own filth.

The eye that mocks at his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

for a hateful woman when she is married; and a servant girl that is heir to her mistress.

There are three things which go well in a march, yea, four that go well in walking:

Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

The heart of her husband trusts safely in her, so that he shall have no need of plunder.

She sees that her merchandise is good; her lamp does not go out by night.