When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receives 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 brings 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 you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:

When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!

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 inmost being shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.

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

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.

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 your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your hope shall not be cut off.

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

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 court, lest you know not what to do in the end, when your neighbor has put you 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 hay is removed and new growth appears
and the grain from the hills is gathered in,

The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a lion.

When a land is in rebellion, it has many rulers,
but with a discerning and knowledgeable person, it endures.

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

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; But when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

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 increased, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man beareth rule, the people sigh.

When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man,
The foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest.

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 increased, transgression increaseth; But the righteous shall look upon 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 is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;

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

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

The war-horse, and the he-goat, 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 is not afraid for her household when it snows,
for all in her household are doubly clothed.

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

When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. There was nothing to be gained 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 whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and with success; yet to a man who has not labored in it, he shall leave it for his share. This also 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, and hath not another to lift 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; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know 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 vowest.

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 advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding of them with his eyes?

But those riches are lost by a bad venture: when he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.

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?

Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

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 knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.

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 my 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, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Yea also, when the fool walketh by the way, his understanding 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!

Happy 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 also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Till when the sun shall not be darkened, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, and the clouds turned not back 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 shall be darkened,

and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets: