When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: but thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

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

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

Lest thou shouldst ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them.

Lest thou give thy honor to others, and thy years to the cruel:

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

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

My son, if thou art surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

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

When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

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

Say to wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

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

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

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

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

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send to thee?

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou art a man given to appetite.

Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven.

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties:

The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

And thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

They have stricken me, wilt 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.

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counselors there is safety.

If thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

If thou forbearest to deliver them that are drawn to death, and those that are ready to be slain;

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and will not he render to every man according to his works?

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honey-comb, which is sweet to thy taste:

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

He that saith to the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

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

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.

For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD will reward thee.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like him.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

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

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

And thou shalt have goats milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for maintenance for thy maidens.

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Who hath ascended into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?

Add thou not to his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thy hand upon thy mouth.

Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

When thou vowest a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

Better is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, wonder not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there are higher than they.

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldst thou destroy thyself?

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldst thou die before thy time?

It is good that thou shouldst take hold of this; yes, also from this withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall escape from them all.

Also take no heed to all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

For often also thy own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say to him, what doest thou?

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labor which thou takest under the sun.

Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor the structure of the parts of conception in her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

If thou knowest not, O thou fairest among women, go forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds tents.

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.

Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yes, pleasant: also our bed is green.

Until the day shall break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.