An inheritance obtained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

Say not, I will recompense evil: wait on Jehovah, and he shall save thee.

Divers weights are an abomination unto Jehovah; and a false balance is not good.

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also himself shall cry, and shall not be heard.

He that loveth mirth shall be a poor man; he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

He coveteth greedily all the day long; but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Have not I written to thee 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 go not with a furious man;

Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts:

Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set.

Hast thou seen a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before the mean.

Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.

Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:

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

For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.

Speak not in the ears of a foolish man, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

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

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

Let not thy heart envy sinners, but be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day;

for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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

Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:

'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.''

Be not thou envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.

Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not, will not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that preserveth thy soul, he knoweth it; and he rendereth to man according to his work.

so consider wisdom for thy soul; if thou hast found it, there shall be a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; lay not waste his resting-place.

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he stumbleth;

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, and be not envious of the wicked:

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

These things also come from the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and wouldest thou deceive with thy lips?

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

Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of the great;

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

Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of another;

lest he that heareth it disgrace thee, and thine evil report turn not away.

It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is itself a weight.

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour beseemeth not a fool.

As the sparrow for flitting about, as the swallow for flying, so a curse undeserved shall not come.

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

He that passing by vexeth himself with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

so is a man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am I not in sport?

when his voice is gracious, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

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

Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.

for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown endure from generation to generation?

Evil men understand not judgment; but they that seek Jehovah understand everything.

He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.

A faithful man aboundeth with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

To have respect of persons is not good; but for a piece of bread will a man transgress.

He that hath an evil eye hasteth after wealth, and knoweth not that poverty shall come upon him.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; but he that withdraweth his eyes shall have many a curse.

A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his steps.

The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; the wicked understandeth not knowledge.

A servant is not corrected by words: he understandeth indeed, but he will not answer.

Whoso shareth with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration, and declareth not.

Truly I am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence.

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

Two things do I ask of thee; deny me them not before I die:

Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:

Speak not too much about a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;

there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;

The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three things never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough:

Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.

There are three things too wonderful for me, and four that I know not:

The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

The lion, mighty among beasts, which turneth not away for any;

Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to them that destroy kings.

It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers to say, Where is the strong drink?

She doeth him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.

And she riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and the day's work to her maidens.

She perceiveth that her earning is good; her lamp goeth not out by night.

She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

She surveyeth the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full: unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.

For there is a man whose labour hath been with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill, and who leaveth it to a man that hath not laboured therein, to be his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

He hath made everything beautiful in its time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work that God doeth.

and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

There is one alone and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and he saith not, For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and who hath not another to lift him up!

And if a man overpower the one, the two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

There is no end of all the people, of all that stood before them; those however that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after the wind.

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.

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

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

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?