Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a foolish man is a present destruction.

Walk with wise men, and thou shall be wise. But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

Scoffers set a city in a flame, but wise men turn away wrath.

When a scoffer is punished, a simple man is made wise, and when a wise man is instructed, he receives knowledge.

Give opportunity to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsels,

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. And a foolish man shall be servant to a wise man of heart.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of a wise man, but a foolish man swallows it up.

A wise man is strong, yea, a man of knowledge increases might.

If a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee. Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

The law of a wise man is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool bears himself insolently, and is confident.

To the wise man the way of life [is] upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

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

A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the strength of the confidence of it.

A fool utters all his anger, but a wise man keeps it back and calms it.

If thou are wise, thou are wise for thyself. And if thou scoff, thou alone shall bear it.

The rich man is wise in his own conceit, but a poor man who has understanding searches him out.

The fruit of a righteous man is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

The heart of a prudent man gets knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

See thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.