If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.

and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

"It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

Don't say, "I will pay back evil." Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous;" peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him --

Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."

The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!"

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"

Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle: the man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal:

lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

"The leach has two daughters: 'Give, give.' "There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don't say, 'Enough:'

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'

"So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?'