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

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, 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 cometh;

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 thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

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

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

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

Hear; for I will speak of 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 treasures.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

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 suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

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

A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

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

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

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

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

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

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

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

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

It is an honour 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 every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever 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.

Wilt thou set thine 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 thy words.

They have stricken me, shalt 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.

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

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

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

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

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

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

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