for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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

Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

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

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.

For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

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

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

Don't they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person's innermost parts.

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

"They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."

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

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

The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.

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

the ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.

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

The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.

lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.