A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

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

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;

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

My son, if you will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with you;

Say not unto your neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it with you.

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

How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will prey upon his precious life.

For jealousy causes the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he be appeased, though you give many gifts.

He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and from the opening of my lips shall come right things.

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

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

The LORD will not allow the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casts away the desire of the wicked.

The wise in heart will heed commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

A good man obtains favor of the LORD: but a man of wicked intentions will he condemn.

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

A scoffer loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the boundary of the widow.

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will appease it.

The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Many will entreat the favor of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that gives gifts.

He that has pity upon the poor lends unto the LORD; and that which he has given will he pay him again.

A slothful man hides his hand in his dish, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Smite a scoffer, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Say not, I will repay evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he will.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

They have stricken me, you shall 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.

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

Whosoever digs a pit shall fall in it: and he that rolls a stone, it will return upon him.

Though you should crush a fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor that has understanding will find him out.

To show partiality is not good: because for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understands he will not answer.

She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.