If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause;

How long will you love simplicity, simple ones? And will scorners delight in their scorning? And will fools hate knowledge?

Turn at my warning; behold, I will pour out my Spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.

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

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

My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you,

They will deliver you from the strange woman, the stranger who flatters with her words,

Do not say to your neighbor, Go and come back again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it beside you:

Ponder the path of your feet, and all your ways will be established.

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

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

For by means of a harlot a man comes to a piece of bread; and another man's wife 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 take any ransom; nor will he be willing if you multiply the gifts.

he has taken a bag of silver with him and will come home at the day of the full moon.

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

I may cause those who love me to inherit riches; and I will fill their treasuries.

Do not reprove a scorner, lest he hate you; give to a wise man, and he will love you.

Give to a wise one, and he will be still wiser; teach a just one, and he will increase in learning.

Jehovah will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry; but He casts away the desire of the wicked.

The wise in heart will receive commandments; but a babbling fool shall fall.

The good gets grace from Jehovah, but He will condemn a man of wicked thoughts.

A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness will speak lies.

A scorner does not love one who corrects him, nor will he go to the wise.

Jehovah will destroy the house of the proud, but He will set up the border of the widow.

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death, but a wise man will quiet it.

The spirit of a man will nourish his sickness, but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Many will beg the favor of a ruler, and all are friends to a man who gives gifts.

He who has pity upon the poor lends to Jehovah, and He will reward his dealing to him.

A lazy one puts his hand in a dish, and he will not return it to his mouth.

Strike a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove one who has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

The lazy one will not plow; after the autumn he shall beg in harvest and have nothing.

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

Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

Do not say, I will repay evil; wait on Jehovah, and He will save you.

The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah 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 Jehovah will plead their cause, and strip the soul of those who plunder them.

Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Do not withhold correction from a boy, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

saying, They struck me; I was not sick; they beat me, but I did not know it. When I awaken, I will add more. I will seek it again.

Do not say, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will give to the man according to his work.

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it; and he who rolls a stone, it will turn back to him.

Though you should pound a fool in a bowl with a bar in the midst of wheat, his foolishness will not depart from him.

He who increases his wealth by interest and unjust gain, he shall gather it for him who will pity the poor.

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

He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and does not know that poverty will come upon him.

A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.

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.