If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:

And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

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

Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

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

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the blameless shall remain in it.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you.

It shall be health to your body, and strength to your bones.

So shall your barns be filled with plenty, and your presses shall burst out with new wine.

For the gain from it is better than the gain from silver, and the profit thereof than fine gold.

Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the ruin from the wicked, when it comes.

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

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

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither turn away from the words of my mouth.

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.

Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.

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

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.

But whosoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.

For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

Now is she outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)

For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey:

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

Till an arrow strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.

She cries at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance at the doors.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge and discretion.

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the first of the dust of the world.

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Blessed is the man that hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars:

Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mixed.

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

If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scoff, you alone shall bear it.

For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

It is as sport to a fool to do wrong: but a man of understanding has wisdom.

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his stead.

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

He that is surety for a stranger shall suffer for it: and he that hates being surety is secure.

As righteousness leads to life: so he that pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

There is one that scatters, and yet increases; and there is one that withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty.

He that withholds grain, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that sells it.

He that diligently seeks good procures favor: but he that seeks evil, it shall come unto him.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

A fool's wrath is at once known: but a prudent man covers shame.

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors feeds on violence.

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

There is one that makes himself rich, yet has nothing: there is one that makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

The light of the righteous rejoices: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understands.

The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

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

The heart of the righteous studies to answer: but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights in the bag are his work.

It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaks what is right.

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

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

He that labors labors for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.

White hair is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.

Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

A bribe is as a magic stone in the eyes of him that gives it: wherever he turns, he prospers.

Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no heart for it?

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.

A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

It is not good to be partial to the wicked, or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runs into it, and is safe.

He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame unto him.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursues them with words, yet they are nothing to him.

The discretion of a man delays his anger; and it is his glory to overlook a transgression.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if you deliver him, yet you must do it again.

The fear of the LORD leads to life: and he that has it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

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

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

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