For they shalt be an ornament 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 privily for the innocent without cause:

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

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

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

None that go to her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life.

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

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

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some 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 that find them, and health to all their flesh.

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counselors they are established.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit of it.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.

Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven.

They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

They have stricken me, wilt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

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 very wise:

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

The conies are but a feeble people, yet they make their houses in the rocks;

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

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.