He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

for I am giving you good instruction.
Don’t abandon my teaching.

I am teaching you the way of wisdom;
I am guiding you on straight paths.

Now, children, listen to me. Don't turn away from what I am saying.

Now I am at the point of utter disaster in the assembly and in the congregation."

For many are the victims whom she has conquered, and many are her slain.

I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.

I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes.

Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

I am loving unto those that love me, and they that seek me early, shall find me.

In His preparing the heavens I am there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,

Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight -- day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for [the hands of] the righteous.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, in whom thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.

Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life; happy shall his children be whom he leaveth behind him.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

The slothful hath said, 'A lion is without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'

The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.

So that your confidence may be in the Lord, I am making them known to you today -- even you.

To whom [is] woe? To whom [is] sorrow? To whom [are] quarrels? To whom [is] complaint? To whom [are] wounds without cause? To whom [is] redness of [the] eyes?

'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.''

For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.

So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?

He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.

A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath wounded; And a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.

Words of a Gatherer, son of an obedient one, the declaration, an affirmation of the man: -- I have wearied myself for God, I have wearied myself for God, and am consumed.

Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.

What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?