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For learning what wisdom and discipline are;
for understanding insightful sayings;


“How long, O naive ones [you who are easily misled], will you love being simple-minded and undiscerning?
How long will scoffers [who ridicule and deride] delight in scoffing,
How long will fools [who obstinately mock truth] hate knowledge?

And her latter state being bitter as wormwood; sharp as a two-mouthed sword.

And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.

She being noisy and perverse; her feet will not dwell in her house:

For she cast down many wounded, and the strong all being slain by her.

In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy with waters,

A woman of folly being noisy, simple, and she knew not anything.

According to the mouth of understanding a man shall be praised: and he being perverse of heart shall be for contempt

He is good being despised, and a servant to him above him, honoring himself, and wanting bread.


A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none [for his ears are closed to wisdom],
But knowledge is easy for one who understands [because he is willing to learn].

It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.

Also the foolish one being silent shall be thought wise: and he shutting his lips, understanding.

Being partial [to] faces of evil [is] not good, [nor] to subvert the righteous at the judgment.

A gossip’s words are like choice food
that goes down to one’s innermost being.

Human beings long for grace, and it's better to be poor than a man of deceit.

Blows that wound clean away evil; such beatings cleanse the innermost being.


When the scoffer is punished, the naive [observes the lesson and] becomes wise;
But when the wise and teachable person is instructed, he receives knowledge.

The just one being circumspect for the house of the unjust one: overthrowing the unjust for evil.

My innermost being will cheer
when your lips say what is right.

My son, eat honey, for it is good; and the dropping of honey being sweet to thy palate.


Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as you need,
Otherwise, being filled excessively, you vomit it.

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


Like a thorn that goes [without being felt] into the hand of a drunken man,
So is a proverb in the mouth of a fool [who remains unaffected by its wisdom].

A gossip’s words are like choice food
that goes down to one’s innermost being.

He going uprightly shall be saved; and he being violent in the ways shall fall at once.

Being a partner with a thief is hating one's life; a curse he will hear, but not disclose.

Surely I am beyond the senselessness of any man; I do not perceive things the way human beings do.

Lest I be so full, I deny thee, and say, "What fellow is the LORD?" And lest I, being constrained through poverty, fall unto stealing and foreswear the name of my God.

They four the small of the earth, and they are wise, being made wise:

Lest they being drunken forget the law, and regard not the cause of the poor, and of all such as be in adversity.