When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous (the upright, the one in right standing with God),
But to the evildoers it is disaster.

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

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

For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

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

When you set your eyes on wealth, it is [suddenly] gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies to the heavens.

Don't speak when a fool is listening, because he'll despise your wise words.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

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

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

They have stricken me, shalt 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.

If you grow weary when times are troubled, your strength is limited.

When thou sayest, 'Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.

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

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

Lest the LORD, when he seeth it, be angry and turn his wrath from him unto thee.

These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.

Don't testify against your neighbor without a cause, and don't lie when you speak.

When I saw this, I gave careful consideration to it; I received instruction from what I saw:

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.

When you argue a case with your neighbor, do not reveal the secret of another person,

lest when men hear thereof, it turn to thy dishonour, and lest thine evil name do not cease.

As the cold of snow in the day of harvest, is a faithful messenger to them who send him, - when, the life of his masters, he restoreth.

[Like] clouds and wind when there is no rain, [so too is] a man who boasts in a gift of deception.

When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.

Taking your coat off when it's cold or pouring vinegar on soda that's what singing songs does to a heavy heart.

Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.

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

[When] the clever sees danger, he hides; the simple go on [and] suffer.

Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

Silver is tried in the mould, and gold in the furnace, and so is a man, when he is openly praised to his face.

When the grass is gone, the new growth is seen,
And herbs of the mountain are gathered in,

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

When a land does wrong, it has many princes,
But when the ruler is a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability endures.

Better [to be] poor and walking in one's integrity than to be crooked of ways when one [is] rich.

When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.

A man, hasting to be rich, hath an evil eye, and knoweth not when want may overtake him.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

When a wise man has a dispute with a fool, the fool either rages or laughs without relief.

When a ruler giveth heed to the word of falsehood, all his attendants, become lawless.

When a king judgeth faithfully the poor, his throne, to futurity, shall be established.

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

When there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but as for he who guards instruction, happiness [is] his.

Who hath ascended the heavens and then descended? Who hath gathered the wind into his two hands? Who hath wrapped up the waters in a mantle? Who hath set up all the ends of the earth? What is his name and what the name of his son, when thou knowest?

The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

Such is the way also of a wife that breaketh wedlock, which wipeth her mouth like as when she hath eaten, and sayeth, "As for me, I have done no harm."

For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

There [are] three [things] that are magnificent of stride, and four that are magnificent [when] moving:

The strutting rooster, the male goat also,
And the king when his army is with him.

She hath perceived when her merchandise is good, Her lamp is not extinguished in the night.

She does not fear for her house [when] it snows, for {her entire household} is clothed [in] crimson.

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!"

And I turned to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king, when they have already done it?

Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}. When [future] days come, both will have been forgotten already. How [is it that] the wise man dies the same as the fool?

When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge and skill, then he gives his legacy to one who has not labored with them. This too is vanity and a great evil.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

Again, when two sleep together, they are warm: but how can a body be warm alone?

As for the people that have been before him, and that come after him, they are innumerable: yet is not their joy the greater through him. This is also a vain thing and a vexation of mind. (v17) When thou comest into the house of God, keep thy foot and draw nigh, that thou mayest hear: that is better than the offerings of fools, for they know not what evil they do

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.

Just as dreams come when there are many cares, so the rash vow of a fool occurs when there are many words.

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.

Don't be surprised when you see the poor oppressed and the violent perverting both justice and verdicts in a province, for one high official watches another, and there are ones higher still over them.

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

That wealth was lost in a bad venture, so when he fathered a son, he was empty-handed.

When God giveth a man riches, goods and honour, so that he wanteth nothing of all that his heart can desire, and yet God giveth him not leave to enjoy the same, but another man spendeth them. This is a vain thing and a miserable plague.

For when there are many words, they increase futility. What is the advantage for man?

Grief is better than laughter,
for when a face is sad, a heart may be glad.

For the wise person thinks carefully when in mourning, but fools focus their thoughts on pleasure.

When times are good, be joyful; when times are bad, consider this: God made the one as well as the other, so people won't seek anything outside of his best.

Do not be terrified of his presence! Go at once and do not delay when a matter [is] unpleasant, for he can do anything that he desires.

Like as when a king giveth a charge, his commandment is mighty: Even so whom may say unto him, "What doest thou?"

Whoever keeps and observes a royal command will experience neither trouble nor misery;
For a wise heart will know the proper time and [appropriate] procedure.

For, to every pursuit, there is a time and a manner, - when, the vexation of man, is great concerning it.

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when man ruleth man to his hurt.

And, thereupon, I considered the lawless when buried, when they had entered, their graves , that, from the place of the Holy One, they used to go and boast in the city that they had so done, - even this, was vanity.

When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

Go thy way - eat, with gladness, thy food, and drink, with a happy heart, thy wine, - when already God is well pleased with thy works.

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

When an iron is blunt, and the point not sharpened, it must be whet again, and that with might. Even so doth wisdom follow diligence.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

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!

When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

When the clouds are full, they empty rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or whether it falls to the north, the place where the tree falls--there it will be.

Just as thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, when the body is in the womb of her that is with child, even, so, canst thou not know the work of God, who maketh all.

If a man live many years, and be glad in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, which shall be many: And when they come, all things shall be but vanity.

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;

Otherwise, when the sun, daylight, moon, or stars turn dark, or when clouds fail to return after the rain

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: