For they shall be a garland of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.

If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

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

and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me,

because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD.

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life),

For length of days, and years of life, and peace, they will add to thee.

so they shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

For they do not sleep unless they do evil. And their sleep is taken away unless they cause to fall.

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.

Do they not err who devise evil? But mercy and truth [are to] those who devise good.

Where there is no counsel, plans are disappointed, but in the multitude of counselors they are established.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him who speaks right.

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.

The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, because they refuse to do justice.

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

There are four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer,

the conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks,

the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands,

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice [due] to any who is afflicted.