As for the head of those that encompass me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.

Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is for them in their calamities.

Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.

For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

And my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, thirsteth after thee. Selah.

Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him, the son of man, that thou takest thought of him?

Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace:

Blessed the people that is in such a case! Blessed the people whose God is Jehovah!

Great is Jehovah, and exceedingly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.

Jehovah is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his works.

Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages, and thy dominion is throughout all generations.

Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

Jehovah is nigh unto all that call upon him, unto all that call upon him in truth.

As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing psalms unto my God while I have my being.

Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God,

Who made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever;

Praise ye Jah! for it is good. Sing psalms of our God; for it is pleasant: praise is comely.

Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

He hath not dealt thus with any nation; and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah!

Let them praise the name of Jehovah, for he it is that commanded, and they were created:

Let them praise the name of Jehovah: for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above the earth and the heavens.

He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:

to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;

cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:

For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.

So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.

when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:

But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from fear of evil.

if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasures:

He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to them that walk in integrity;

When wisdom entereth into thy heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul,

whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course:

Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear Jehovah, and depart from evil:

for whom Jehovah loveth he chasteneth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

For the gain thereof is better than the gain of silver, and her revenue than fine gold.

She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not equal unto her.

Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand riches and honour.

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is he that retaineth her.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; but his secret is with the upright.

The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; but he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.

The wise shall inherit glory; but shame shall be the promotion of the foolish.

The beginning of wisdom is, Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.

Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life.

For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.

But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, going on and brightening until the day be fully come.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.

For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.

As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.

deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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

So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.

A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;

For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

for by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a loaf of bread, and another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.

They do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry:

Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance;

Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.

She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:

Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.

For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;

He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks serve for the correction of the fool;

till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

Unto you, men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man:

For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing tortuous or perverse in them.

for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not equal to it.

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.

Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength.

My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.

Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of Jehovah;

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. To him that is void of understanding, she saith,

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

Impart to a wise man, and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase learning.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the Holy is intelligence.

If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

The foolish woman is clamorous; she is stupid, and knoweth nothing.

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. And to him that is void of understanding she saith,

Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.