Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Does not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

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

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

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his command: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

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

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of the grave.

The LORD will not allow the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casts away the desire of the wicked.

In the multitude of words there lacks not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the land.

Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivers from death.

Though they join hand to hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the descendants of the righteous shall be delivered.

A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

The wicked desires the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yields fruit.

The slothful man roasts not that which he took in hunting: but the possessions of a diligent man are precious.

A wise son hears his father's instruction: but a scoffer hears not rebuke.

The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor hears not rebuke.

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

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

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

The heart knows its own bitterness; and a stranger does not share its joy.

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish does not so.

A scoffer loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresses not in judgment.

A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into the way that is not good.

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

Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

Whosoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Also, to punish the just is not good, nor to flog princes for their integrity.

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

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; and he that hastens with his feet sins.

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall not escape.

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.

Luxury is not fitting for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.

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.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore associate not with him who flatters with his lips.

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Say not, I will repay evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.

Diverse weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Whosoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

He covets greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives and spares not.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Have not I written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go:

Be not one of them that gives pledges, or of them that become surety for debts.

Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.

See you a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

Be not desirous of his delicacies: for they are deceitful food.

Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Eat not the bread of him that is stingy, neither desire you his delicacies:

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.

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

For surely there is a future hope; and your expectation shall not be cut off.

Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of meat:

Hearken unto your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.

They have stricken me, you shall 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 envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

Wisdom is too lofty for a fool: he opens not his mouth in the gate.

If you say, Behold, we knew it not; does not he that weighs the heart consider it? and he that keeps your soul, does not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your hope shall not be cut off.

Lie not in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles:

Fret not yourself because of evil men, neither be you envious at the wicked;

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

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have partiality in judgment.

Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause; and deceive not with your lips.

Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

Put not forth yourself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:

Go not forth hastily to court, lest you know not what to do in the end, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and disclose not a secret to another:

Lest he that hears it put you to shame, and the evil report turns not away.

Whosoever boasts about himself of a gift not given is like clouds and wind without rain.

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search out their own glory is not glory.

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

As the bird by flitting, as the swallow by flying, so the curse without cause shall not alight.

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

The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

He that passes by, and meddles with a quarrel not belonging to him, is like one that takes a dog by the ears.

So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and says, Am I not jesting?

When he speaks graciously, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

Boast not yourself of tomorrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.