and then say, "Alas, why hated I nurture? Why did my heart despise correction?

And why will you, my son, be infatuated with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a seductress?

That is why I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I found you!

Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no heart for it?

As a result, your trust will be in the LORD, that's why I'm teaching you today, even you.

If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

And why? The wicked hath nothing to hope for, and the candle of the ungodly shall be put out.

To have respect of persons in judgment is not good: And why? He will do wrong; yea, even for a piece of bread.