He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:

cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:

How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.

I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;

then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.

in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will make plain thy paths.

for Jehovah shall be thy confidence, and he will keep thy foot from being taken.

Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to-morrow I will give, when thou hast it by thee.

She shall give to thy head a garland of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow upon thee.

I will teach thee in the way of wisdom, I will lead thee in paths of uprightness.

How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance;

he will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content though thou multipliest thy gifts.

he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.

Hear, for I will speak excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasuries.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

Impart to a wise man, and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase learning.

A good man obtaineth favour of Jehovah; but a man of mischievous devices will he condemn.

He that walketh with wise men becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved.

A faithful witness will not lie; but a false witness uttereth lies.

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him; he will not go unto the wise.

An oracle is on the lips of the king: his mouth will not err in judgment.

The fury of a king is as messengers of death; but a wise man will pacify it.

A man of many friends will come to ruin but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

He that is gracious to the poor lendeth unto Jehovah; and what he hath bestowed will he repay unto him.

A sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it to his mouth again.

Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove the intelligent, and he will understand knowledge.

The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; but a faithful man who shall find?

An inheritance obtained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

Say not, I will recompense evil: wait on Jehovah, and he shall save thee.

The king's heart in the hand of Jehovah is as brooks of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Cast out the scorner, and contention will depart, and strife and ignominy shall cease.

for Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil the soul of those that despoil them.

wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.

For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.

Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.

Speak not in the ears of a foolish man, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.

'They have smitten me, and I am not sore; they have beaten me, and I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.''

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not, will not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that preserveth thy soul, he knoweth it; and he rendereth to man according to his work.

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me, I will render to the man according to his work.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth.

whosoever will restrain her restraineth the wind, and his right hand encountereth oil.

If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.

To have respect of persons is not good; but for a piece of bread will a man transgress.

A servant is not corrected by words: he understandeth indeed, but he will not answer.