That thou mayest be kept, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who, with her speeches, doth flatter.

Let not thine heart wander in her ways, and be thou not deceived in her paths.

For wisdom is more worth than precious stones; yea, all the things that thou canst desire, are not to be compared unto it.

Thou shalt not reprove him mocking, lest he shall hate thee: reprove to the wise one and he will love thee.

Thou shalt give to the wise one and he will be more wise: make known to the just one and he will add receiving.

If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

Or ever thou canst turn thee about, the ungodly shall be overthrown; but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

In the mouth of the foolish, is a haughty rod, but, as for the lips of the wise, thou shalt give heed to them!

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and look: what thou devisest, it shall prosper.

In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

The scoffer, thou shalt smite, and, the simple, will beware, but correct a man of intelligence - he will understand teaching.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Every purpose is established by counsel; And by wise guidance make thou war.

A revealer of secrets, is one who goeth about talebearing, therefore, with him who openeth his lips, shalt thou not have fellowship.

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

The bandages of a wound thou removest with the evil, Also the plagues of the inner parts of the heart!

If thou teachest a child in his youth what way he should go; he shall not leave it when he is old.

Incline thine ear and hear the words of wise men, then, thy heart, wilt thou apply to my teaching;

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou.

That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

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

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

and if thou wilt rule thy own self, be not over greedy of his meat, for meat beguileth and deceiveth.

Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

In the ears of the foolish thou shalt not speak, for he will despise for the understanding of thy words.

Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come:

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,

Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.

Truth, buy thou, but do not sell, wisdom, and correction, and understanding.

My son, thou shalt give thy heart to me, and thine eyes shall delight in my way.

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

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

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.

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

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.

Do not lie in wait, thou lawless man, against the home of the righteous, - neither destroy thou his place of rest;

When thine enemy falleth, do not thou rejoice, and, when he stumbleth, let not thy heart exult:

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field -- go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house.

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and wouldest thou deceive with thy lips?

Thou shalt not say, According to what he did to me, thus will I do to him: I will turn back to the man according to his work.

Do not honour thyself before a king, nor, in the place of great men, do thou stand;

For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.

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.

Thy contention, urge thou with thy neighbour, and, the secret of another, do not reveal:

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

When his voice will compassionate, thou shalt not believe him, for seven abominations in his heart

Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Thine own friend and thy father's friend, do not thou forsake; but, the house of thy brother, do not enter, in thy day of calamity, Better a neighbour near, than a brother far off.

My son, be wise, and thou shalt make me a glad heart; so that I shall make answer unto my rebukers.

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

The lambs shall clothe thee, and for the goats thou shalt have money to thy husbandry.

And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Two things I require of thee, that thou will not deny me before I die.

Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:

Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

thou takest hold of the lizard with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.

If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

My son, thou son of my body: O my dear beloved son,

Thou shalt not give thy strength to women, and thy ways to the destroying of kings.

Be thou an advocate and stand in judgment thyself, to speak for all such as be dumb and sucourless.

Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

I said in my heart, 'Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it is vanity.

insomuch that I said unto laughter, "Thou art mad," and to mirth, "What doest thou?"

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.

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.