1:1 The proverbs and chains about of Solomon the thy neck. son of David, 1:10 My son, if king of Israel; sinners entice 1:2 To know thee, consent wisdom and thou not. instruction; to 1:11 If they perceive the say, Come with words of us, let us lay understanding; wait for blood, 1:3 To receive let us lurk the instruction privily for the of wisdom, innocent without justice, and cause: judgment, and 1:12 Let us equity; swallow them up 1:4 To give alive as the subtlety to the grave; and whole, simple, to the as those that go young man down into the knowledge and pit: discretion. 1:13 We shall 1:5 A wise [man] find all precious will hear, and substance, we will increase shall fill our learning; and a houses with man of spoil: understanding 1:14 Cast in thy shall attain unto lot among us; let wise counsels: us all have one 1:6 To purse: understand a 1:15 My son, proverb, and the walk not thou in interpretation; the way with the words of the them; refrain thy wise, and their foot from their dark sayings. path: 1:7 The fear of 1:16 For their the LORD [is] the feet run to evil, beginning of and make haste to knowledge: [but] shed blood. fools despise 1:17 Surely in wisdom and vain the net is instruction. spread in the 1:8 My son, hear sight of any the instruction bird. of thy father, 1:18 And they and forsake not lay wait for the law of thy their [own] mother: blood; they lurk 1:9 For they privily for their [shall be] an [own] lives. ornament of grace 1:19 So [are] unto thy head, the ways of every one that is fear cometh as greedy of gain; desolation, and [which] taketh your destruction away the life of cometh as a the owners whirlwind; when thereof. distress and 1:20 Wisdom anguish cometh crieth without; upon you. she uttereth her 1:28 Then shall voice in the they call upon streets: me, but I will 1:21 She crieth not answer; they in the chief shall seek me place of early, but they concourse, in the shall not find openings of the me: gates: in the 1:29 For that city she uttereth they hated her words, knowledge, and [saying], did not choose 1:22 How long, the fear of the ye simple ones, LORD: will ye love 1:30 They would simplicity? and none of my the scorners counsel: they delight in their despised all my scorning, and reproof. fools hate 1:31 Therefore knowledge? shall they eat of 1:23 Turn you at the fruit of my reproof: their own way, behold, I will and be filled pour out my with their own spirit unto you, devices. I will make known 1:32 For the my words unto turning away of you. the simple shall 1:24 Because I slay them, and have called, and the prosperity of ye refused; I fools shall have stretched destroy them. out my hand, and 1:33 But whoso no man regarded; hearkeneth unto 1:25 But ye have me shall dwell set at nought all safely, and shall my counsel, and be quiet from would none of my fear of evil. reproof: 2:1 My son, if 1:26 I also will thou wilt receive laugh at your my words, and calamity; I will hide my mock when your commandments with fear cometh; thee; 1:27 When your 2:2 So that thou incline thine ear shall preserve unto wisdom, thee, [and] apply thine understanding heart to shall keep thee: understanding; 2:12 To deliver 2:3 Yea, if thou thee from the way criest after of the evil knowledge, [and] [man], from the liftest up thy man that speaketh voice for froward things; understanding; 2:13 Who leave 2:4 If thou the paths of seekest her as uprightness, to silver, and walk in the ways searchest for her of darkness; as [for] hid 2:14 Who rejoice treasures; to do evil, [and] 2:5 Then shalt delight in the thou understand frowardness of the fear of the the wicked; LORD, and find 2:15 Whose ways the knowledge of [are] crooked, God. and [they] 2:6 For the LORD froward in their giveth wisdom: paths: out of his mouth 2:16 To deliver [cometh] thee from the knowledge and strange woman, understanding. [even] from the 2:7 He layeth up stranger [which] sound wisdom for flattereth with the righteous: her words; [he is] a buckler 2:17 Which to them that walk forsaketh the uprightly. guide of her 2:8 He keepeth youth, and the paths of forgetteth the judgment, and covenant of her preserveth the God. way of his 2:18 For her saints. house inclineth 2:9 Then shalt unto death, and thou understand her paths unto righteousness, the dead. and judgment, and 2:19 None that equity; [yea], go unto her every good path. return again, 2:10 When wisdom neither take they entereth into hold of the paths thine heart, and of life. knowledge is 2:20 That thou pleasant unto thy mayest walk in soul; the way of good 2:11 Discretion [men], and keep the paths of the from evil. righteous. 3:8 It shall be 2:21 For the health to thy upright shall navel, and marrow dwell in the to thy bones. land, and the 3:9 Honour the perfect shall LORD with thy remain in it. substance, and 2:22 But the with the wicked shall be firstfruits of cut off from the all thine earth, and the increase: transgressors 3:10 So shall shall be rooted thy barns be out of it. filled with 3:1 My son, plenty, and thy forget not my presses shall law; but let burst out with thine heart keep new wine. my commandments: 3:11 My son, 3:2 For length despise not the of days, and long chastening of the life, and peace, LORD; neither be shall they add to weary of his thee. correction: 3:3 Let not 3:12 For whom mercy and truth the LORD loveth forsake thee: he correcteth; bind them about even as a father thy neck; write the son [in whom] them upon the he delighteth. table of thine 3:13 Happy [is] heart: the man [that] 3:4 So shalt findeth wisdom, thou find favour and the man and good [that] getteth understanding in understanding. the sight of God 3:14 For the and man. merchandise of it 3:5 Trust in the [is] better than LORD with all the merchandise thine heart; and of silver, and lean not unto the gain thereof thine own than fine gold. understanding. 3:15 She [is] 3:6 In all thy more precious ways acknowledge than rubies: and him, and he shall all the things direct thy paths. thou canst desire are not to be 3:7 Be not wise compared unto in thine own her. eyes: fear the 3:16 Length of LORD, and depart days [is] in her right hand; [and] fear, neither of in her left hand the desolation of riches and the wicked, when honour. it cometh. 3:17 Her ways 3:26 For the [are] ways of LORD shall be thy pleasantness, and confidence, and all her paths shall keep thy [are] peace. foot from being 3:18 She [is] a taken. tree of life to 3:27 Withhold them that lay not good from hold upon her: them to whom it and happy [is is due, when it every one] that is in the power retaineth her. of thine hand to 3:19 The LORD by do [it]. wisdom hath 3:28 Say not founded the unto thy earth; by neighbour, Go, understanding and come again, hath he and to morrow I established the will give; when heavens. thou hast it by 3:20 By his thee. knowledge the 3:29 Devise not depths are broken evil against thy up, and the neighbour, seeing clouds drop down he dwelleth the dew. securely by thee. 3:21 My son, let not them depart 3:30 Strive not from thine eyes: with a man keep sound wisdom without cause, if and discretion: he have done thee 3:22 So shall no harm. they be life unto 3:31 Envy thou thy soul, and not the grace to thy oppressor, and neck. choose none of 3:23 Then shalt his ways. thou walk in thy 3:32 For the way safely, and froward [is] thy foot shall abomination to not stumble. the LORD: but his 3:24 When thou secret [is] with liest down, thou the righteous. shalt not be 3:33 The curse afraid: yea, thou of the LORD [is] shalt lie down, in the house of and thy sleep the wicked: but shall be sweet. he blesseth the 3:25 Be not habitation of the afraid of sudden just. 3:34 Surely he get scorneth the understanding. scorners: but he 4:8 Exalt her, giveth grace unto and she shall the lowly. promote thee: she 3:35 The wise shall bring thee shall inherit to honour, when glory: but shame thou dost embrace shall be the her. promotion of 4:9 She shall fools. give to thine 4:1 Hear, ye head an ornament children, the of grace: a crown instruction of a of glory shall father, and she deliver to attend to know thee. understanding. 4:10 Hear, O my 4:2 For I give son, and receive you good my sayings; and doctrine, forsake the years of thy ye not my law. life shall be 4:3 For I was my many. father's son, 4:11 I have tender and only taught thee in [beloved] in the the way of sight of my wisdom; I have mother. led thee in right 4:4 He taught me paths. also, and said 4:12 When thou unto me, Let goest, thy steps thine heart shall not be retain my words: straitened; and keep my when thou commandments, and runnest, thou live. shalt not 4:5 Get wisdom, stumble. get 4:13 Take fast understanding: hold of forget [it] not; instruction; let neither decline [her] not go: from the words of keep her; for she my mouth. [is] thy life. 4:6 Forsake her 4:14 Enter not not, and she into the path of shall preserve the wicked, and thee: love her, go not in the way and she shall of evil [men]. keep thee. 4:15 Avoid it, 4:7 Wisdom [is] pass not by it, the principal turn from it, and thing; pass away. [therefore] get 4:16 For they wisdom: and with sleep not, except all thy getting they have done mischief; and straight before their sleep is thee. taken away, 4:26 Ponder the unless they cause path of thy feet, [some] to fall. and let all thy 4:17 For they ways be eat the bread of established. wickedness, and 4:27 Turn not to drink the wine of the right hand violence. nor to the left: 4:18 But the remove thy foot path of the just from evil. [is] as the 5:1 My son, shining light, attend unto my that shineth more wisdom, [and] bow and more unto the thine ear to my perfect day. understanding: 4:19 The way of 5:2 That thou the wicked [is] mayest regard as darkness: they discretion, and know not at what [that] thy lips they stumble. may keep 4:20 My son, knowledge. attend to my 5:3 For the lips words; incline of a strange thine ear unto my woman drop [as] sayings. an honeycomb, and 4:21 Let them her mouth [is] not depart from smoother than thine eyes; keep oil: them in the midst 5:4 But her end of thine heart. is bitter as 4:22 For they wormwood, sharp [are] life unto as a twoedged those that find sword. them, and health 5:5 Her feet go to all their down to death; flesh. her steps take 4:23 Keep thy hold on hell. heart with all 5:6 Lest thou diligence; for shouldest ponder out of it [are] the path of life, the issues of her ways are life. moveable, [that] 4:24 Put away thou canst not from thee a know [them]. froward mouth, 5:7 Hear me now and perverse lips therefore, O ye put far from children, and thee. depart not from 4:25 Let thine the words of my eyes look right mouth. on, and let thine 5:8 Remove thy eyelids look way far from her, and come not nigh and not the door of her strangers' with house: thee. 5:9 Lest thou 5:18 Let thy give thine honour fountain be unto others, and blessed: and thy years unto rejoice with the the cruel: wife of thy 5:10 Lest youth. strangers be 5:19 [Let her be filled with thy as] the loving wealth; and thy hind and pleasant labours [be] in roe; let her the house of a breasts satisfy stranger; thee at all 5:11 And thou times; and be mourn at the thou ravished last, when thy always with her flesh and thy love. body are 5:20 And why consumed, wilt thou, my 5:12 And say, son, be ravished How have I hated with a strange instruction, and woman, and my heart despised embrace the bosom reproof; of a stranger? 5:13 And have 5:21 For the not obeyed the ways of man [are] voice of my before the eyes teachers, nor of the LORD, and inclined mine ear he pondereth all to them that his goings. instructed me! 5:22 His own 5:14 I was iniquities shall almost in all take the wicked evil in the midst himself, and he of the shall be holden congregation and with the cords of assembly. his sins. 5:15 Drink 5:23 He shall waters out of die without thine own instruction; and cistern, and in the greatness running waters of his folly he out of thine own shall go astray. well. 6:1 My son, if 5:16 Let thy thou be surety fountains be for thy friend, dispersed abroad, [if] thou hast [and] rivers of stricken thy hand waters in the with a stranger, streets. 6:2 Thou art 5:17 Let them be snared with the only thine own, words of thy mouth, thou art 6:11 So shall taken with the thy poverty come words of thy as one that mouth. travelleth, and 6:3 Do this now, thy want as an my son, and armed man. deliver thyself, 6:12 A naughty when thou art person, a wicked come into the man, walketh with hand of thy a froward mouth. friend; go, 6:13 He winketh humble thyself, with his eyes, he and make sure thy speaketh with his friend. feet, he teacheth 6:4 Give not with his fingers; sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber 6:14 Frowardness to thine eyelids. [is] in his heart, he 6:5 Deliver deviseth mischief thyself as a roe continually; he from the hand [of soweth discord. the hunter], and 6:15 Therefore as a bird from shall his the hand of the calamity come fowler. suddenly; 6:6 Go to the suddenly shall he ant, thou be broken without sluggard; remedy. consider her 6:16 These six ways, and be [things] doth the wise: LORD hate: yea, 6:7 Which having seven [are] an no guide, abomination unto overseer, or him: ruler, 6:17 A proud 6:8 Provideth look, a lying her meat in the tongue, and hands summer, [and] that shed gathereth her innocent blood, food in the 6:18 An heart harvest. that deviseth 6:9 How long wicked wilt thou sleep, imaginations, O sluggard? when feet that be wilt thou arise swift in running out of thy sleep? to mischief, 6:19 A false 6:10 [Yet] a witness [that] little sleep, a speaketh lies, little slumber, a and he that little folding of soweth discord the hands to among brethren. sleep: 6:20 My son, keep thy father's be burned? commandment, and 6:29 So he that forsake not the goeth in to his law of thy neighbour's wife; mother: whosoever 6:21 Bind them toucheth her continually upon shall not be thine heart, innocent. [and] tie them 6:30 [Men] do about thy neck. not despise a 6:22 When thou thief, if he goest, it shall steal to satisfy lead thee; when his soul when he thou sleepest, it is hungry; shall keep thee; 6:31 But [if] he and [when] thou be found, he awakest, it shall shall restore talk with thee. sevenfold; he 6:23 For the shall give all commandment [is] the substance of a lamp; and the his house. law [is] light; 6:32 [But] whoso and reproofs of committeth instruction [are] adultery with a the way of life: woman lacketh 6:24 To keep understanding: he thee from the [that] doeth it evil woman, from destroyeth his the flattery of own soul. the tongue of a 6:33 A wound and strange woman. dishonour shall 6:25 Lust not he get; and his after her beauty reproach shall in thine heart; not be wiped neither let her away. take thee with 6:34 For her eyelids. jealousy [is] the 6:26 For by rage of a man: means of a therefore he will whorish woman [a not spare in the man is brought] day of vengeance. to a piece of bread: and the 6:35 He will not adulteress will regard any hunt for the ransom; neither precious life. will he rest 6:27 Can a man content, though take fire in his thou givest many bosom, and his gifts. clothes not be 7:1 My son, keep burned? my words, and lay 6:28 Can one go up my upon hot coals, commandments with and his feet not thee. 7:2 Keep my stubborn; her commandments, and feet abide not in live; and my law her house: as the apple of 7:12 Now [is thine eye. she] without, now 7:3 Bind them in the streets, upon thy fingers, and lieth in wait write them upon at every corner.) the table of thine heart. 7:13 So she 7:4 Say unto caught him, and wisdom, Thou kissed him, [and] [art] my sister; with an impudent and call face said unto understanding him, [thy] kinswoman: 7:14 [I have] 7:5 That they peace offerings may keep thee with me; this day from the strange have I payed my woman, from the vows. stranger [which] 7:15 Therefore flattereth with came I forth to her words. meet thee, 7:6 For at the diligently to window of my seek thy face, house I looked and I have found through my thee. casement, 7:16 I have 7:7 And beheld decked my bed among the simple with coverings of ones, I discerned tapestry, with among the youths, carved [works], a young man void with fine linen of understanding, of Egypt. 7:17 I have 7:8 Passing perfumed my bed through the with myrrh, street near her aloes, and corner; and he cinnamon. went the way to 7:18 Come, let her house, us take our fill 7:9 In the of love until the twilight, in the morning: let us evening, in the solace ourselves black and dark with loves. night: 7:19 For the 7:10 And, goodman [is] not behold, there met at home, he is him a woman gone a long [with] the attire journey: of an harlot, and 7:20 He hath subtle of heart. taken a bag of 7:11 (She [is] money with him, loud and [and] will come home at the day in the top of appointed. high places, by 7:21 With her the way in the much fair speech places of the she caused him to paths. yield, with the 8:3 She crieth flattering of her at the gates, at lips she forced the entry of the him. city, at the 7:22 He goeth coming in at the after her doors. straightway, as 8:4 Unto you, O an ox goeth to men, I call; and the slaughter, or my voice [is] to as a fool to the the sons of man. correction of the 8:5 O ye simple, stocks; understand 7:23 Till a dart wisdom: and, ye strike through fools, be ye of his liver; as a an understanding bird hasteth to heart. the snare, and 8:6 Hear; for I knoweth not that will speak of it [is] for his excellent things; life. and the opening 7:24 Hearken of my lips [shall unto me now be] right things. therefore, O ye children, and 8:7 For my mouth attend to the shall speak words of my truth; and mouth. wickedness [is] 7:25 Let not an abomination to thine heart my lips. decline to her 8:8 All the ways, go not words of my mouth astray in her [are] in paths. righteousness; 7:26 For she [there is] hath cast down nothing froward many wounded: or perverse in yea, many strong them. [men] have been 8:9 They [are] slain by her. all plain to him 7:27 Her house that [is] the way to understandeth, hell, going down and right to them to the chambers that find of death. knowledge. 8:1 Doth not 8:10 Receive my wisdom cry? and instruction, and understanding put not silver; and forth her voice? knowledge rather 8:2 She standeth than choice gold. choice silver. 8:11 For wisdom 8:20 I lead in [is] better than the way of rubies; and all righteousness, in the things that the midst of the may be desired paths of are not to be judgment: compared to it. 8:21 That I may 8:12 I wisdom cause those that dwell with love me to prudence, and inherit find out substance; and I knowledge of will fill their witty inventions. treasures. 8:22 The LORD 8:13 The fear of possessed me in the LORD [is] to the beginning of hate evil: pride, his way, before and arrogancy, his works of old. and the evil way, and the froward 8:23 I was set mouth, do I hate. up from everlasting, from 8:14 Counsel the beginning, or [is] mine, and ever the earth sound wisdom: I was. [am] 8:24 When [there understanding; I were] no depths, have strength. I was brought 8:15 By me kings forth; when reign, and [there were] no princes decree fountains justice. abounding with 8:16 By me water. princes rule, and 8:25 Before the nobles, [even] mountains were all the judges of settled, before the earth. the hills was I 8:17 I love them brought forth: that love me; and 8:26 While as those that seek yet he had not me early shall made the earth, find me. nor the fields, 8:18 Riches and nor the highest honour [are] with part of the dust me; [yea], of the world. durable riches 8:27 When he and prepared the righteousness. heavens, I [was] 8:19 My fruit there: when he [is] better than set a compass gold, yea, than upon the face of fine gold; and my the depth: revenue than 8:28 When he established the 8:36 But he that clouds above: sinneth against when he me wrongeth his strengthened the own soul: all fountains of the they that hate me deep: love death. 8:29 When he 9:1 Wisdom hath gave to the sea builded her his decree, that house, she hath the waters should hewn out her not pass his seven pillars: commandment: when 9:2 She hath he appointed the killed her foundations of beasts; she hath the earth: mingled her wine; 8:30 Then I was she hath also by him, [as] one furnished her brought up [with table. him]: and I was 9:3 She hath daily [his] sent forth her delight, maidens: she rejoicing always crieth upon the before him; highest places of 8:31 Rejoicing the city, in the habitable 9:4 Whoso [is] part of his simple, let him earth; and my turn in hither: delights [were] [as for] him that with the sons of wanteth men. understanding, 8:32 Now she saith to him, therefore hearken unto me, O ye 9:5 Come, eat of children: for my bread, and blessed [are they drink of the wine that] keep my [which] I have ways. mingled. 8:33 Hear 9:6 Forsake the instruction, and foolish, and be wise, and live; and go in refuse it not. the way of 8:34 Blessed understanding. [is] the man that 9:7 He that heareth me, reproveth a watching daily at scorner getteth my gates, waiting to himself shame: at the posts of and he that my doors. rebuketh a wicked 8:35 For whoso [man getteth] findeth me himself a blot. findeth life, and 9:8 Reprove not shall obtain a scorner, lest favour of the he hate thee: LORD. rebuke a wise man, and he will 9:17 Stolen love thee. waters are sweet, 9:9 Give and bread [eaten] [instruction] to in secret is a wise [man], and pleasant. he will be yet 9:18 But he wiser: teach a knoweth not that just [man], and the dead [are] he will increase there; [and that] in learning. her guests [are] 9:10 The fear of in the depths of the LORD [is] the hell. beginning of 10:1 The wisdom: and the proverbs of knowledge of the Solomon. A wise holy [is] son maketh a glad understanding. father: but a 9:11 For by me foolish son [is] thy days shall be the heaviness of multiplied, and his mother. the years of thy 10:2 Treasures life shall be of wickedness increased. profit nothing: 9:12 If thou be but righteousness wise, thou shalt delivereth from be wise for death. thyself: but [if] 10:3 The LORD thou scornest, will not suffer thou alone shalt the soul of the bear [it]. righteous to 9:13 A foolish famish: but he woman [is] casteth away the clamorous: [she substance of the is] simple, and wicked. knoweth nothing. 10:4 He becometh 9:14 For she poor that dealeth sitteth at the [with] a slack door of her hand: but the house, on a seat hand of the in the high diligent maketh places of the rich. city, 10:5 He that 9:15 To call gathereth in passengers who go summer [is] a right on their wise son: [but] ways: he that sleepeth 9:16 Whoso [is] in harvest [is] a simple, let him son that causeth turn in hither: shame. and [as for] him 10:6 Blessings that wanteth [are] upon the understanding, head of the just: she saith to him, but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 10:15 The rich 10:7 The memory man's wealth [is] of the just [is] his strong city: blessed: but the the destruction name of the of the poor [is] wicked shall rot. their poverty. 10:16 The labour 10:8 The wise in of the righteous heart will [tendeth] to receive life: the fruit commandments: but of the wicked to a prating fool sin. shall fall. 10:17 He [is in] 10:9 He that the way of life walketh uprightly that keepeth walketh surely: instruction: but but he that he that refuseth perverteth his reproof erreth. ways shall be 10:18 He that known. hideth hatred 10:10 He that [with] lying winketh with the lips, and he that eye causeth uttereth a sorrow: but a slander, [is] a prating fool fool. shall fall. 10:19 In the 10:11 The mouth multitude of of a righteous words there [man is] a well wanteth not sin: of life: but but he that violence covereth refraineth his the mouth of the lips [is] wise. wicked. 10:20 The tongue 10:12 Hatred of the just [is stirreth up as] choice strifes: but love silver: the heart covereth all of the wicked sins. [is] little 10:13 In the worth. lips of him that 10:21 The lips hath of the righteous understanding feed many: but wisdom is found: fools die for but a rod [is] want of wisdom. for the back of 10:22 The him that is void blessing of the of understanding. LORD, it maketh rich, and he 10:14 Wise [men] addeth no sorrow lay up knowledge: with it. but the mouth of 10:23 [It is] as the foolish [is] sport to a fool near destruction. to do mischief: but a man of wisdom: but the understanding froward tongue hath wisdom. shall be cut out. 10:24 The fear of the wicked, it 10:32 The lips shall come upon of the righteous him: but the know what is desire of the acceptable: but righteous shall the mouth of the be granted. wicked [speaketh] 10:25 As the frowardness. whirlwind 11:1 A false passeth, so [is] balance [is] the wicked no abomination to [more]: but the the LORD: but a righteous [is] an just weight [is] everlasting his delight. foundation. 11:2 [When] 10:26 As vinegar pride cometh, to the teeth, and then cometh as smoke to the shame: but with eyes, so [is] the the lowly [is] sluggard to them wisdom. that send him. 11:3 The 10:27 The fear integrity of the of the LORD upright shall prolongeth days: guide them: but but the years of the perverseness the wicked shall of transgressors be shortened. shall destroy 10:28 The hope them. of the righteous 11:4 Riches [shall be] profit not in the gladness: but the day of wrath: but expectation of righteousness the wicked shall delivereth from perish. death. 10:29 The way of 11:5 The the LORD [is] righteousness of strength to the the perfect shall upright: but direct his way: destruction but the wicked [shall be] to the shall fall by his workers of own wickedness. iniquity. 11:6 The 10:30 The righteousness of righteous shall the upright shall never be removed: deliver them: but but the wicked transgressors shall not inhabit shall be taken in the earth. [their own] 10:31 The mouth naughtiness. of the just 11:7 When a bringeth forth wicked man dieth, [his] expectation of counsellors shall perish: and [there is] the hope of safety. unjust [men] 11:15 He that is perisheth. surety for a 11:8 The stranger shall righteous is smart [for it]: delivered out of and he that trouble, and the hateth suretiship wicked cometh in is sure. his stead. 11:16 A gracious 11:9 An woman retaineth hypocrite with honour: and [his] mouth strong [men] destroyeth his retain riches. neighbour: but 11:17 The through knowledge merciful man shall the just be doeth good to his delivered. own soul: but [he 11:10 When it that is] cruel goeth well with troubleth his own the righteous, flesh. the city 11:18 The wicked rejoiceth: and worketh a when the wicked deceitful work: perish, [there but to him that is] shouting. soweth 11:11 By the righteousness blessing of the [shall be] a sure upright the city reward. is exalted: but 11:19 As it is overthrown righteousness by the mouth of [tendeth] to the wicked. life: so he that 11:12 He that is pursueth evil void of wisdom [pursueth it] to despiseth his his own death. neighbour: but a 11:20 They that man of are of a froward understanding heart [are] holdeth his abomination to peace. the LORD: but 11:13 A [such as are] talebearer upright in revealeth [their] way [are] secrets: but he his delight. that is of a 11:21 [Though] faithful spirit hand [join] in concealeth the hand, the wicked matter. shall not be 11:14 Where no unpunished: but counsel [is], the the seed of the people fall: but righteous shall in the multitude be delivered. 11:22 [As] a troubleth his own jewel of gold in house shall a swine's snout, inherit the wind: [so is] a fair and the fool woman which is [shall be] without servant to the discretion. wise of heart. 11:23 The desire 11:30 The fruit of the righteous of the righteous [is] only good: [is] a tree of [but] the life; and he that expectation of winneth souls the wicked [is] [is] wise. wrath. 11:31 Behold, 11:24 There is the righteous that scattereth, shall be and yet recompensed in increaseth; and the earth: much [there is] that more the wicked withholdeth more and the sinner. than is meet, but 12:1 Whoso [it tendeth] to loveth poverty. instruction 11:25 The loveth knowledge: liberal soul but he that shall be made hateth reproof fat: and he that [is] brutish. watereth shall be 12:2 A good watered also [man] obtaineth himself. favour of the 11:26 He that LORD: but a man withholdeth corn, of wicked devices the people shall will he condemn. curse him: but 12:3 A man shall blessing [shall not be be] upon the head established by of him that wickedness: but selleth [it]. the root of the 11:27 He that righteous shall diligently not be moved. seeketh good 12:4 A virtuous procureth favour: woman [is] a but he that crown to her seeketh mischief, husband: but she it shall come that maketh unto him. ashamed [is] as 11:28 He that rottenness in his trusteth in his bones. riches shall 12:5 The fall: but the thoughts of the righteous shall righteous [are] flourish as a right: [but] the branch. counsels of the 11:29 He that wicked [are] deceit. is snared by the 12:6 The words transgression of of the wicked [his] lips: but [are] to lie in the just shall wait for blood: come out of but the mouth of trouble. the upright shall 12:14 A man deliver them. shall be 12:7 The wicked satisfied with are overthrown, good by the fruit and [are] not: of [his] mouth: but the house of and the the righteous recompense of a shall stand. man's hands shall 12:8 A man shall be rendered unto be commended him. according to his 12:15 The way of wisdom: but he a fool [is] right that is of a in his own eyes: perverse heart but he that shall be hearkeneth unto despised. counsel [is] 12:9 [He that wise. is] despised, and 12:16 A fool's hath a servant, wrath is [is] better than presently known: he that honoureth but a prudent himself, and [man] covereth lacketh bread. shame. 12:10 A 12:17 [He that] righteous [man] speaketh truth regardeth the showeth forth life of his righteousness: beast: but the but a false tender mercies of witness deceit. the wicked [are] 12:18 There is cruel. that speaketh 12:11 He that like the tilleth his land piercings of a shall be sword: but the satisfied with tongue of the bread: but he wise [is] health. that followeth vain [persons is] 12:19 The lip of void of truth shall be understanding. established for 12:12 The wicked ever: but a lying desireth the net tongue [is] but of evil [men]: for a moment. but the root of 12:20 Deceit the righteous [is] in the heart yieldeth [fruit]. of them that imagine evil: but 12:13 The wicked to the counsellors of is] no death. peace [is] joy. 13:1 A wise son 12:21 There [heareth] his shall no evil father's happen to the instruction: but just: but the a scorner heareth wicked shall be not rebuke. filled with 13:2 A man shall mischief. eat good by the 12:22 Lying lips fruit of [his] [are] abomination mouth: but the to the LORD: but soul of the they that deal transgressors truly [are] his [shall eat] delight. violence. 12:23 A prudent 13:3 He that man concealeth keepeth his mouth knowledge: but keepeth his life: the heart of [but] he that fools proclaimeth openeth wide his foolishness. lips shall have 12:24 The hand destruction. of the diligent 13:4 The soul of shall bear rule: the sluggard but the slothful desireth, and shall be under [hath] nothing: tribute. but the soul of 12:25 Heaviness the diligent in the heart of shall be made man maketh it fat. stoop: but a good 13:5 A righteous word maketh it [man] hateth glad. lying: but a 12:26 The wicked [man] is righteous [is] loathsome, and more excellent cometh to shame. than his 13:6 neighbour: but Righteousness the way of the keepeth [him that wicked seduceth is] upright in them. the way: but 12:27 The wickedness slothful [man] overthroweth the roasteth not that sinner. which he took in 13:7 There is hunting: but the that maketh substance of a himself rich, yet diligent man [is] [hath] nothing: precious. [there is] that 12:28 In the way maketh himself of righteousness poor, yet [hath] [is] life; and great riches. [in] the pathway 13:8 The ransom [thereof there of a man's life [are] his riches: [his] folly. but the poor 13:17 A wicked heareth not messenger falleth rebuke. into mischief: 13:9 The light but a faithful of the righteous ambassador [is] rejoiceth: but health. the lamp of the 13:18 Poverty wicked shall be and shame [shall put out. be to] him that 13:10 Only by refuseth pride cometh instruction: but contention: but he that regardeth with the well reproof shall be advised [is] honoured. wisdom. 13:19 The desire 13:11 Wealth accomplished is [gotten] by sweet to the vanity shall be soul: but [it is] diminished: but abomination to he that gathereth fools to depart by labour shall from evil. increase. 13:20 He that 13:12 Hope walketh with wise deferred maketh [men] shall be the heart sick: wise: but a but [when] the companion of desire cometh, fools shall be [it is] a tree of destroyed. life. 13:21 Evil 13:13 Whoso pursueth sinners: despiseth the but to the word shall be righteous good destroyed: but he shall be repayed. that feareth the commandment shall 13:22 A good be rewarded. [man] leaveth an 13:14 The law of inheritance to the wise [is] a his children's fountain of life, children: and the to depart from wealth of the the snares of sinner [is] laid death. up for the just. 13:15 Good 13:23 Much food understanding [is in] the giveth favour: tillage of the but the way of poor: but there transgressors is [that is] [is] hard. destroyed for 13:16 Every want of judgment. prudent [man] dealeth with 13:24 He that knowledge: but a spareth his rod fool layeth open hateth his son: but he that foolish man, when loveth him thou perceivest chasteneth him not [in him] the betimes. lips of 13:25 The knowledge. righteous eateth 14:8 The wisdom to the satisfying of the prudent of his soul: but [is] to the belly of the understand his wicked shall way: but the want. folly of fools 14:1 Every wise [is] deceit. woman buildeth 14:9 Fools make her house: but a mock at sin: the foolish but among the plucketh it down righteous [there with her hands. is] favour. 14:2 He that 14:10 The heart walketh in his knoweth his own uprightness bitterness; and a feareth the LORD: stranger doth not but [he that is] intermeddle with perverse in his his joy. ways despiseth 14:11 The house him. of the wicked 14:3 In the shall be mouth of the overthrown: but foolish [is] a the tabernacle of rod of pride: but the upright shall the lips of the flourish. wise shall 14:12 There is a preserve them. way which seemeth 14:4 Where no right unto a man, oxen [are], the but the end crib [is] clean: thereof [are] the but much increase ways of death. [is] by the 14:13 Even in strength of the laughter the ox. heart is 14:5 A faithful sorrowful; and witness will not the end of that lie: but a false mirth [is] witness will heaviness. utter lies. 14:14 The 14:6 A scorner backslider in seeketh wisdom, heart shall be and [findeth it] filled with his not: but own ways: and a knowledge [is] good man [shall easy unto him be satisfied] that from himself. understandeth. 14:15 The simple 14:7 Go from the believeth every presence of a word: but the prudent [man] 14:24 The crown looketh well to of the wise [is] his going. their riches: 14:16 A wise [but] the [man] feareth, foolishness of and departeth fools [is] folly. from evil: but the fool rageth, 14:25 A true and is confident. witness delivereth souls: 14:17 [He that but a deceitful is] soon angry [witness] dealeth speaketh lies. foolishly: and a 14:26 In the man of wicked fear of the LORD devices is hated. [is] strong confidence: and 14:18 The simple his children inherit folly: shall have a but the prudent place of refuge. are crowned with 14:27 The fear knowledge. of the LORD [is] 14:19 The evil a fountain of bow before the life, to depart good; and the from the snares wicked at the of death. gates of the 14:28 In the righteous. multitude of 14:20 The poor people [is] the is hated even of king's honour: his own but in the want neighbour: but of people [is] the rich [hath] the destruction many friends. of the prince. 14:21 He that 14:29 [He that despiseth his is] slow to wrath neighbour [is] of great sinneth: but he understanding: that hath mercy but [he that is] on the poor, hasty of spirit happy [is] he. exalteth folly. 14:22 Do they 14:30 A sound not err that heart [is] the devise evil? but life of the mercy and truth flesh: but envy [shall be] to the rottenness of them that devise the bones. good. 14:31 He that 14:23 In all oppresseth the labour there is poor reproacheth profit: but the his Maker: but he talk of the lips that honoureth [tendeth] only to him hath mercy on penury. the poor. 14:32 The wicked despiseth his is driven away in father's his wickedness: instruction: but but the righteous he that regardeth hath hope in his reproof is death. prudent. 14:33 Wisdom 15:6 In the resteth in the house of the heart of him that righteous [is] hath much treasure: understanding: but in the but [that which revenues of the is] in the midst wicked is of fools is made trouble. known. 15:7 The lips of 14:34 the wise disperse Righteousness knowledge: but exalteth a the heart of the nation: but sin foolish [doeth] [is] a reproach not so. to any people. 15:8 The 14:35 The king's sacrifice of the favour [is] wicked [is] an toward a wise abomination to servant: but his the LORD: but the wrath is prayer of the [against] him upright [is] his that causeth delight. shame. 15:9 The way of 15:1 A soft the wicked [is] answer turneth an abomination away wrath: but unto the LORD: grievous words but he loveth him stir up anger. that followeth 15:2 The tongue after of the wise useth righteousness. knowledge aright: 15:10 Correction but the mouth of [is] grievous fools poureth out unto him that foolishness. forsaketh the 15:3 The eyes of way: [and] he the LORD [are] in that hateth every place, reproof shall beholding the die. evil and the 15:11 Hell and good. destruction [are] 15:4 A wholesome before the LORD: tongue [is] a how much more tree of life: but then the hearts perverseness of the children therein [is] a of men? breach in the 15:12 A scorner spirit. loveth not one 15:5 A fool that reproveth him: neither will father: but a he go unto the foolish man wise. despiseth his 15:13 A merry mother. heart maketh a 15:21 Folly [is] cheerful joy to [him that countenance: but is] destitute of by sorrow of the wisdom: but a man heart the spirit of understanding is broken. walketh 15:14 The heart uprightly. of him that hath 15:22 Without understanding counsel purposes seeketh are disappointed: knowledge: but but in the the mouth of multitude of fools feedeth on counsellors they foolishness. are established. 15:15 All the 15:23 A man hath days of the joy by the answer afflicted [are] of his mouth: and evil: but he that a word [spoken] is of a merry in due season, heart [hath] a how good [is it]! continual feast. 15:16 Better 15:24 The way of [is] little with life [is] above the fear of the to the wise, that LORD than great he may depart treasure and from hell trouble beneath. therewith. 15:25 The LORD 15:17 Better will destroy the [is] a dinner of house of the herbs where love proud: but he is, than a will establish stalled ox and the border of the hatred therewith. widow. 15:26 The 15:18 A wrathful thoughts of the man stirreth up wicked [are] an strife: but [he abomination to that is] slow to the LORD: but anger appeaseth [the words] of strife. the pure [are] 15:19 The way of pleasant words. the slothful [man 15:27 He that is is] as an hedge greedy of gain of thorns: but troubleth his own the way of the house; but he righteous [is] that hateth gifts made plain. shall live. 15:20 A wise son 15:28 The heart maketh a glad of the righteous studieth to 16:4 The LORD answer: but the hath made all mouth of the [things] for wicked poureth himself: yea, out evil things. even the wicked 15:29 The LORD for the day of [is] far from the evil. wicked: but he 16:5 Every one heareth the [that is] proud prayer of the in heart [is] an righteous. abomination to 15:30 The light the LORD: of the eyes [though] hand rejoiceth the [join] in hand, heart: [and] a he shall not be good report unpunished. maketh the bones 16:6 By mercy fat. and truth 15:31 The ear iniquity is that heareth the purged: and by reproof of life the fear of the abideth among the LORD [men] depart wise. from evil. 15:32 He that 16:7 When a refuseth man's ways please instruction the LORD, he despiseth his own maketh even his soul: but he that enemies to be at heareth reproof peace with him. getteth 16:8 Better [is] understanding. a little with 15:33 The fear righteousness of the LORD [is] than great the instruction revenues without of wisdom; and right. before honour 16:9 A man's [is] humility. heart deviseth 16:1 The his way: but the preparations of LORD directeth the heart in man, his steps. and the answer of 16:10 A divine the tongue, [is] sentence [is] in from the LORD. the lips of the 16:2 All the king: his mouth ways of a man transgresseth not [are] clean in in judgment. his own eyes; but 16:11 A just the LORD weigheth weight and the spirits. balance [are] the 16:3 Commit thy LORD's: all the works unto the weights of the LORD, and thy bag [are] his thoughts shall be work. established. 16:12 [It is] an abomination to 16:20 He that kings to commit handleth a matter wickedness: for wisely shall find the throne is good: and whoso established by trusteth in the righteousness. LORD, happy [is] 16:13 Righteous he. lips [are] the 16:21 The wise delight of kings; in heart shall be and they love him called prudent: that speaketh and the sweetness right. of the lips 16:14 The wrath increaseth of a king [is as] learning. messengers of 16:22 death: but a wise Understanding man will pacify [is] a wellspring it. of life unto him 16:15 In the that hath it: but light of the the instruction king's of fools [is] countenance [is] folly. life; and his 16:23 The heart favour [is] as a of the wise cloud of the teacheth his latter rain. mouth, and addeth 16:16 How much learning to his better [is it] to lips. get wisdom than 16:24 Pleasant gold! and to get words [are as] an understanding honeycomb, sweet rather to be to the soul, and chosen than health to the silver! bones. 16:17 The 16:25 There is a highway of the way that seemeth upright [is] to right unto a man, depart from evil: but the end he that keepeth thereof [are] the his way ways of death. preserveth his 16:26 He that soul. laboureth 16:18 Pride laboureth for [goeth] before himself; for his destruction, and mouth craveth it an haughty spirit of him. before a fall. 16:27 An ungodly 16:19 Better [it man diggeth up is to be] of an evil: and in his humble spirit lips [there is] with the lowly, as a burning than to divide fire. the spoil with 16:28 A froward the proud. man soweth strife: and a silver, and the whisperer furnace for gold: separateth chief but the LORD friends. trieth the 16:29 A violent hearts. man enticeth his 17:4 A wicked neighbour, and doer giveth heed leadeth him into to false lips; the way [that is] [and] a liar not good. giveth ear to a 16:30 He naughty tongue. shutteth his eyes 17:5 Whoso to devise froward mocketh the poor things: moving reproacheth his his lips he Maker: [and] he bringeth evil to that is glad at pass. calamities shall 16:31 The hoary not be head [is] a crown unpunished. of glory, [if] it 17:6 Children's be found in the children [are] way of the crown of old righteousness. men; and the 16:32 [He that glory of children is] slow to anger [are] their [is] better than fathers. the mighty; and 17:7 Excellent he that ruleth speech becometh his spirit than not a fool: much he that taketh a less do lying city. lips a prince. 16:33 The lot is 17:8 A gift [is cast into the as] a precious lap; but the stone in the eyes whole disposing of him that hath thereof [is] of it: whithersoever the LORD. it turneth, it 17:1 Better [is] prospereth. a dry morsel, and 17:9 He that quietness covereth a therewith, than transgression an house full of seeketh love; but sacrifices [with] he that repeateth strife. a matter 17:2 A wise separateth [very] servant shall friends. have rule over a 17:10 A reproof son that causeth entereth more shame, and shall into a wise man have part of the than an hundred inheritance among stripes into a the brethren. fool. 17:3 The fining 17:11 An evil pot [is] for [man] seeketh only rebellion: that loveth therefore a cruel strife: [and] he messenger shall that exalteth his be sent against gate seeketh him. destruction. 17:12 Let a bear 17:20 He that robbed of her hath a froward whelps meet a heart findeth no man, rather than good: and he that a fool in his hath a perverse folly. tongue falleth 17:13 Whoso into mischief. rewardeth evil 17:21 He that for good, evil begetteth a fool shall not depart [doeth it] to his from his house. sorrow: and the 17:14 The father of a fool beginning of hath no joy. strife [is as] 17:22 A merry when one letteth heart doeth good out water: [like] a therefore leave medicine: but a off contention, broken spirit before it be drieth the bones. meddled with. 17:15 He that 17:23 A wicked justifieth the [man] taketh a wicked, and he gift out of the that condemneth bosom to pervert the just, even the ways of they both [are] judgment. abomination to 17:24 Wisdom the LORD. [is] before him 17:16 Wherefore that hath [is there] a understanding; price in the hand but the eyes of a of a fool to get fool [are] in the wisdom, seeing ends of the [he hath] no earth. heart [to it]? 17:25 A foolish 17:17 A friend son [is] a grief loveth at all to his father, times, and a and bitterness to brother is born her that bare for adversity. him. 17:18 A man void 17:26 Also to of understanding punish the just striketh hands, [is] not good, [and] becometh [nor] to strike surety in the princes for presence of his equity. friend. 17:27 He that 17:19 He loveth hath knowledge transgression spareth his words: [and] a mouth [is] his man of destruction, and understanding is his lips [are] of an excellent the snare of his spirit. soul. 17:28 Even a 18:8 The words fool, when he of a talebearer holdeth his [are] as wounds, peace, is counted and they go down wise: [and] he into the that shutteth his innermost parts lips [is of the belly. esteemed] a man 18:9 He also of understanding. that is slothful in his work is 18:1 Through brother to him desire a man, that is a great having separated waster. himself, seeketh 18:10 The name [and] of the LORD [is] intermeddleth a strong tower: with all wisdom. the righteous 18:2 A fool hath runneth into it, no delight in and is safe. understanding, 18:11 The rich but that his man's wealth [is] heart may his strong city, discover itself. and as an high 18:3 When the wall in his own wicked cometh, conceit. [then] cometh 18:12 Before also contempt, destruction the and with ignominy heart of man is reproach. haughty, and 18:4 The words before honour of a man's mouth [is] humility. [are as] deep 18:13 He that waters, [and] the answereth a wellspring of matter before he wisdom [as] a heareth [it], it flowing brook. [is] folly and 18:5 [It is] not shame unto him. good to accept 18:14 The spirit the person of the of a man will wicked, to sustain his overthrow the infirmity; but a righteous in wounded spirit judgment. who can bear? 18:6 A fool's 18:15 The heart lips enter into of the prudent contention, and getteth his mouth calleth knowledge; and for strokes. the ear of the 18:7 A fool's wise seeketh knowledge. 18:24 A man 18:16 A man's [that hath] gift maketh room friends must show for him, and himself friendly: bringeth him and there is a before great men. friend [that] sticketh closer 18:17 [He that than a brother. is] first in his 19:1 Better [is] own cause the poor that [seemeth] just; walketh in his but his neighbour integrity, than cometh and [he that is] searcheth him. perverse in his 18:18 The lot lips, and is a causeth fool. contentions to 19:2 Also, cease, and [that] the soul parteth between [be] without the mighty. knowledge, [it 18:19 A brother is] not good; and offended [is he that hasteth harder to be won] with [his] feet than a strong sinneth. city: and [their] 19:3 The contentions [are] foolishness of like the bars of man perverteth a castle. his way: and his 18:20 A man's heart fretteth belly shall be against the LORD. satisfied with the fruit of his 19:4 Wealth mouth; [and] with maketh many the increase of friends; but the his lips shall he poor is separated be filled. from his 18:21 Death and neighbour. life [are] in the 19:5 A false power of the witness shall not tongue: and they be unpunished, that love it and [he that] shall eat the speaketh lies fruit thereof. shall not escape. 18:22 [Whoso] findeth a wife 19:6 Many will findeth a good entreat the [thing], and favour of the obtaineth favour prince: and every of the LORD. man [is] a friend 18:23 The poor to him that useth entreaties; giveth gifts. but the rich 19:7 All the answereth brethren of the roughly. poor do hate him: how much more do from the LORD. his friends go 19:15 far from him? he Slothfulness pursueth [them casteth into a with] words, deep sleep; and [yet] they [are] an idle soul wanting [to him]. shall suffer hunger. 19:8 He that 19:16 He that getteth wisdom keepeth the loveth his own commandment soul: he that keepeth his own keepeth soul; [but] he understanding that despiseth shall find good. his ways shall 19:9 A false die. witness shall not 19:17 He that be unpunished, hath pity upon and [he that] the poor lendeth speaketh lies unto the LORD; shall perish. and that which he 19:10 Delight is hath given will not seemly for a he pay him again. fool; much less for a servant to 19:18 Chasten have rule over thy son while princes. there is hope, 19:11 The and let not thy discretion of a soul spare for man deferreth his his crying. anger; and [it 19:19 A man of is] his glory to great wrath shall pass over a suffer transgression. punishment: for 19:12 The king's if thou deliver wrath [is] as the [him], yet thou roaring of a must do it again. lion; but his favour [is] as 19:20 Hear dew upon the counsel, and grass. receive 19:13 A foolish instruction, that son [is] the thou mayest be calamity of his wise in thy father: and the latter end. contentions of a 19:21 [There wife [are] a are] many devices continual in a man's heart; dropping. nevertheless the 19:14 House and counsel of the riches [are] the LORD, that shall inheritance of stand. fathers: and a 19:22 The desire prudent wife [is] of a man [is] his kindness: and a scorners, and poor man [is] stripes for the better than a back of fools. liar. 20:1 Wine [is] a 19:23 The fear mocker, strong of the LORD drink [is] [tendeth] to raging: and life: and [he whosoever is that hath it] deceived thereby shall abide is not wise. satisfied; he 20:2 The fear of shall not be a king [is] as visited with the roaring of a evil. lion: [whoso] 19:24 A slothful provoketh him to [man] hideth his anger sinneth hand in [his] [against] his own bosom, and will soul. not so much as 20:3 [It is] an bring it to his honour for a man mouth again. to cease from 19:25 Smite a strife: but every scorner, and the fool will be simple will meddling. beware: and 20:4 The reprove one that sluggard will not hath plow by reason of understanding, the cold; [and] he will [therefore] shall understand he beg in knowledge. harvest, and 19:26 He that [have] nothing. wasteth [his] 20:5 Counsel in father, [and] the heart of man chaseth away [is like] deep [his] mother, water; but a man [is] a son that of understanding causeth shame, will draw it out. and bringeth reproach. 20:6 Most men 19:27 Cease, my will proclaim son, to hear the every one his own instruction [that goodness: but a causeth] to err faithful man who from the words of can find? knowledge. 20:7 The just 19:28 An ungodly [man] walketh in witness scorneth his integrity: judgment: and the his children mouth of the [are] blessed wicked devoureth after him. iniquity. 20:8 A king that 19:29 Judgments sitteth in the are prepared for throne of judgment take a pledge of scattereth away him for a strange all evil with his woman. eyes. 20:17 Bread of 20:9 Who can deceit [is] sweet say, I have made to a man; but my heart clean, I afterwards his am pure from my mouth shall be sin? filled with 20:10 Divers gravel. weights, [and] 20:18 [Every] divers measures, purpose is both of them established by [are] alike counsel: and with abomination to good advice make the LORD. war. 20:11 Even a 20:19 He that child is known by goeth about [as] his doings, a talebearer whether his work revealeth [be] pure, and secrets: whether [it be] therefore meddle right. not with him that 20:12 The flattereth with hearing ear, and his lips. the seeing eye, 20:20 Whoso the LORD hath curseth his made even both of father or his them. mother, his lamp 20:13 Love not shall be put out sleep, lest thou in obscure come to poverty; darkness. open thine eyes, 20:21 An [and] thou shalt inheritance [may be satisfied with be] gotten bread. hastily at the 20:14 [It is] beginning; but naught, [it is] the end thereof naught, saith the shall not be buyer: but when blessed. he is gone his 20:22 Say not way, then he thou, I will boasteth. recompense evil; 20:15 There is [but] wait on the gold, and a LORD, and he multitude of shall save thee. rubies: but the 20:23 Divers lips of knowledge weights [are] an [are] a precious abomination unto jewel. the LORD; and a 20:16 Take his false balance garment that is [is] not good. surety [for] a 20:24 Man's stranger: and goings [are] of the LORD; how can LORD pondereth a man then the hearts. understand his 21:3 To do own way? justice and 20:25 [It is] a judgment [is] snare to the man more acceptable [who] devoureth to the LORD than [that which is] sacrifice. holy, and after 21:4 An high vows to make look, and a proud inquiry. heart, [and] the 20:26 A wise plowing of the king scattereth wicked, [is] sin. the wicked, and bringeth the 21:5 The wheel over them. thoughts of the 20:27 The spirit diligent [tend] of man [is] the only to candle of the plenteousness; LORD, searching but of every one all the inward [that is] hasty parts of the only to want. belly. 21:6 The getting 20:28 Mercy and of treasures by a truth preserve lying tongue [is] the king: and his a vanity tossed throne is to and fro of upholden by them that seek mercy. death. 20:29 The glory 21:7 The robbery of young men [is] of the wicked their strength: shall destroy and the beauty of them; because old men [is] the they refuse to do grey head. judgment. 20:30 The 21:8 The way of blueness of a man [is] froward wound cleanseth and strange: but away evil: so [as for] the [do] stripes the pure, his work inward parts of [is] right. the belly. 21:9 [It is] 21:1 The king's better to dwell heart [is] in the in a corner of hand of the LORD, the housetop, [as] the rivers than with a of water: he brawling woman in turneth it a wide house. whithersoever he 21:10 The soul will. of the wicked 21:2 Every way desireth evil: of a man [is] his neighbour right in his own findeth no favour eyes: but the in his eyes. 21:11 When the 21:18 The wicked scorner is [shall be] a punished, the ransom for the simple is made righteous, and wise: and when the transgressor the wise is for the upright. instructed, he 21:19 [It is] receiveth better to dwell knowledge. in the 21:12 The wilderness, than righteous [man] with a wisely contentious and considereth the an angry woman. house of the 21:20 [There is] wicked: [but God] treasure to be overthroweth the desired and oil wicked for in the dwelling [their] of the wise; but wickedness. a foolish man 21:13 Whoso spendeth it up. stoppeth his ears 21:21 He that at the cry of the followeth after poor, he also righteousness and shall cry mercy findeth himself, but life, shall not be righteousness, heard. and honour. 21:14 A gift in 21:22 A wise secret pacifieth [man] scaleth the anger: and a city of the reward in the mighty, and bosom strong casteth down the wrath. strength of the 21:15 [It is] confidence joy to the just thereof. to do judgment: 21:23 Whoso but destruction keepeth his mouth [shall be] to the and his tongue workers of keepeth his soul iniquity. from troubles. 21:16 The man 21:24 Proud that wandereth [and] haughty out of the way of scorner [is] his understanding name, who dealeth shall remain in in proud wrath. the congregation 21:25 The desire of the dead. of the slothful 21:17 He that killeth him; for loveth pleasure his hands refuse [shall be] a poor to labour. man: he that 21:26 He loveth wine and coveteth greedily oil shall not be all the day long: rich. but the righteous giveth and 22:4 By humility spareth not. [and] the fear of 21:27 The the LORD [are] sacrifice of the riches, and wicked [is] honour, and life. abomination: how much more, [when] 22:5 Thorns he bringeth it [and] snares with a wicked [are] in the way mind? of the froward: 21:28 A false he that doth keep witness shall his soul shall be perish: but the far from them. man that heareth 22:6 Train up a speaketh child in the way constantly. he should go: and 21:29 A wicked when he is old, man hardeneth his he will not face: but [as depart from it. for] the upright, 22:7 The rich he directeth his ruleth over the way. poor, and the 21:30 [There is] borrower [is] no wisdom nor servant to the understanding nor lender. counsel against 22:8 He that the LORD. soweth iniquity 21:31 The horse shall reap [is] prepared vanity: and the against the day rod of his anger of battle: but shall fail. safety [is] of 22:9 He that the LORD. hath a bountiful 22:1 A [good] eye shall be name [is] rather blessed; for he to be chosen than giveth of his great riches, bread to the [and] loving poor. favour rather 22:10 Cast out than silver and the scorner, and gold. contention shall 22:2 The rich go out; yea, and poor meet strife and together: the reproach shall LORD [is] the cease. maker of them 22:11 He that all. loveth pureness 22:3 A prudent of heart, [for] [man] foreseeth the grace of his the evil, and lips the king hideth himself: [shall be] his but the simple friend. pass on, and are 22:12 The eyes punished. of the LORD preserve 22:20 Have not I knowledge, and he written to thee overthroweth the excellent things words of the in counsels and transgressor. knowledge, 22:13 The 22:21 That I slothful [man] might make thee saith, [There is] know the a lion without, I certainty of the shall be slain in words of truth; the streets. that thou 22:14 The mouth mightest answer of strange women the words of [is] a deep pit: truth to them he that is that send unto abhorred of the thee? LORD shall fall 22:22 Rob not therein. the poor, because 22:15 he [is] poor: Foolishness [is] neither oppress bound in the the afflicted in heart of a child; the gate: [but] the rod of 22:23 For the correction shall LORD will plead drive it far from their cause, and him. spoil the soul of 22:16 He that those that oppresseth the spoiled them. poor to increase 22:24 Make no his [riches, and] friendship with he that giveth to an angry man; and the rich, [shall] with a furious surely [come] to man thou shalt want. not go: 22:17 Bow down 22:25 Lest thou thine ear, and learn his ways, hear the words of and get a snare the wise, and to thy soul. apply thine heart 22:26 Be not unto my thou [one] of knowledge. them that strike 22:18 For [it hands, [or] of is] a pleasant them that are thing if thou sureties for keep them within debts. thee; they shall 22:27 If thou withal be fitted hast nothing to in thy lips. pay, why should 22:19 That thy he take away thy trust may be in bed from under the LORD, I have thee? made known to 22:28 Remove not thee this day, the ancient even to thee. landmark, which thy fathers have heart [is] not set. with thee. 22:29 Seest thou 23:8 The morsel a man diligent in [which] thou hast his business? he eaten shalt thou shall stand vomit up, and before kings; he lose thy sweet shall not stand words. before mean 23:9 Speak not [men]. in the ears of a 23:1 When thou fool: for he will sittest to eat despise the with a ruler, wisdom of thy consider words. diligently what 23:10 Remove not [is] before thee: the old landmark; and enter not 23:2 And put a into the fields knife to thy of the throat, if thou fatherless: [be] a man given 23:11 For their to appetite. redeemer [is] 23:3 Be not mighty; he shall desirous of his plead their cause dainties: for with thee. they [are] 23:12 Apply deceitful meat. thine heart unto 23:4 Labour not instruction, and to be rich: cease thine ears to the from thine own words of wisdom. knowledge. 23:5 Wilt thou 23:13 Withhold set thine eyes not correction upon that which from the child: is not? for for [if] thou [riches] beatest him with certainly make the rod, he shall themselves wings; not die. they fly away as 23:14 Thou shalt an eagle toward beat him with the heaven. rod, and shalt 23:6 Eat thou deliver his soul not the bread of from hell. [him that hath] 23:15 My son, if an evil eye, thine heart be neither desire wise, my heart thou his dainty shall rejoice, meats: even mine. 23:7 For as he 23:16 Yea, my thinketh in his reins shall heart, so [is] rejoice, when thy he: Eat and lips speak right drink, saith he things. to thee; but his 23:17 Let not thine heart envy give me thine sinners: but [be heart, and let thou] in the fear thine eyes of the LORD all observe my ways. the day long. 23:27 For a 23:18 For surely whore [is] a deep there is an end; ditch; and a and thine strange woman expectation shall [is] a narrow not be cut off. pit. 23:19 Hear thou, 23:28 She also my son, and be lieth in wait as wise, and guide [for] a prey, and thine heart in increaseth the the way. transgressors 23:20 Be not among men. among 23:29 Who hath winebibbers; woe? who hath among riotous sorrow? who hath eaters of flesh: contentions? who 23:21 For the hath babbling? drunkard and the who hath wounds glutton shall without cause? come to poverty: who hath redness and drowsiness of eyes? shall clothe [a 23:30 They that man] with rags. tarry long at the 23:22 Hearken wine; they that unto thy father go to seek mixed that begat thee, wine. and despise not 23:31 Look not thy mother when thou upon the she is old. wine when it is 23:23 Buy the red, when it truth, and sell giveth his colour [it] not; [also] in the cup, wisdom, and [when] it moveth instruction, and itself aright. understanding. 23:32 At the 23:24 The father last it biteth of the righteous like a serpent, shall greatly and stingeth like rejoice: and he an adder. that begetteth a 23:33 Thine eyes wise [child] shall behold shall have joy of strange women, him. and thine heart 23:25 Thy father shall utter and thy mother perverse things. shall be glad, 23:34 Yea, thou and she that bare shalt be as he thee shall that lieth down rejoice. in the midst of 23:26 My son, the sea, or as he that lieth upon the gate. the top of a 24:8 He that mast. deviseth to do 23:35 They have evil shall be stricken me, called a [shalt thou say, mischievous and] I was not person. sick; they have 24:9 The thought beaten me, [and] of foolishness I felt [it] not: [is] sin: and the when shall I scorner [is] an awake? I will abomination to seek it yet men. again. 24:10 [If] thou 24:1 Be not thou faint in the day envious against of adversity, thy evil men, neither strength [is] desire to be with small. them. 24:11 If thou 24:2 For their forbear to heart studieth deliver [them destruction, and that are] drawn their lips talk unto death, and of mischief. [those that are] 24:3 Through ready to be wisdom is an slain; house builded; 24:12 If thou and by sayest, Behold, understanding it we knew it not; is established: doth not he that 24:4 And by pondereth the knowledge shall heart consider the chambers be [it]? and he that filled with all keepeth thy soul, precious and doth [not] he pleasant riches. know [it]? and 24:5 A wise man shall [not] he [is] strong; yea, render to [every] a man of man according to knowledge his works? increaseth 24:13 My son, strength. eat thou honey, 24:6 For by wise because [it is] counsel thou good; and the shalt make thy honeycomb, [which war: and in is] sweet to thy multitude of taste: counsellors 24:14 So [shall] [there is] the knowledge of safety. wisdom [be] unto 24:7 Wisdom [is] thy soul: when too high for a thou hast found fool: he openeth [it], then there not his mouth in shall be a reward, and thy the ruin of them expectation shall both? not be cut off. 24:23 These 24:15 Lay not [things] also wait, O wicked [belong] to the [man], against wise. [It is] not the dwelling of good to have the righteous; respect of spoil not his persons in resting place: judgment. 24:16 For a just 24:24 He that [man] falleth saith unto the seven times, and wicked, Thou riseth up again: [art] righteous; but the wicked him shall the shall fall into people curse, mischief. nations shall 24:17 Rejoice abhor him: not when thine 24:25 But to enemy falleth, them that rebuke and let not thine [him] shall be heart be glad delight, and a when he good blessing stumbleth: shall come upon 24:18 Lest the them. LORD see [it], 24:26 [Every and it displease man] shall kiss him, and he turn [his] lips that away his wrath giveth a right from him. answer. 24:19 Fret not 24:27 Prepare thyself because thy work without, of evil [men], and make it fit neither be thou for thyself in envious at the the field; and wicked; afterwards build 24:20 For there thine house. shall be no 24:28 Be not a reward to the witness against evil [man]; the thy neighbour candle of the without cause; wicked shall be and deceive [not] put out. with thy lips. 24:21 My son, 24:29 Say not, I fear thou the will do so to him LORD and the as he hath done king: [and] to me: I will meddle not with render to the man them that are according to his given to change: work. 24:22 For their 24:30 I went by calamity shall the field of the rise suddenly; slothful, and by and who knoweth the vineyard of the man void of there shall come understanding; forth a vessel 24:31 And, lo, for the finer. it was all grown 25:5 Take away over with thorns, the wicked [from] [and] nettles had before the king, covered the face and his throne thereof, and the shall be stone wall established in thereof was righteousness. broken down. 25:6 Put not 24:32 Then I forth thyself in saw, [and] the presence of considered [it] the king, and well: I looked stand not in the upon [it, and] place of great received [men]: instruction. 25:7 For better 24:33 [Yet] a [it is] that it little sleep, a be said unto little slumber, a thee, Come up little folding of hither; than that the hands to thou shouldest be sleep: put lower in the 24:34 So shall presence of the thy poverty come prince whom thine [as] one that eyes have seen. travelleth; and 25:8 Go not thy want as an forth hastily to armed man. strive, lest 25:1 These [are] [thou know not] also proverbs of what to do in the Solomon, which end thereof, when the men of thy neighbour Hezekiah king of hath put thee to Judah copied out. shame. 25:9 Debate thy 25:2 [It is] the cause with thy glory of God to neighbour conceal a thing: [himself]; and but the honour of discover not a kings [is] to secret to search out a another: matter. 25:10 Lest he 25:3 The heaven that heareth [it] for height, and put thee to the earth for shame, and thine depth, and the infamy turn not heart of kings away. [is] 25:11 A word unsearchable. fitly spoken [is 25:4 Take away like] apples of the dross from gold in pictures the silver, and of silver. 25:12 [As] an trouble [is like] earring of gold, a broken tooth, and an ornament and a foot out of of fine gold, [so joint. is] a wise 25:20 [As] he reprover upon an that taketh away obedient ear. a garment in cold 25:13 As the weather, [and as] cold of snow in vinegar upon the time of nitre, so [is] he harvest, [so is] that singeth a faithful songs to an heavy messenger to them heart. that send him: 25:21 If thine for he refresheth enemy be hungry, the soul of his give him bread to masters. eat; and if he be 25:14 Whoso thirsty, give him boasteth himself water to drink: of a false gift 25:22 For thou [is like] clouds shalt heap coals and wind without of fire upon his rain. head, and the 25:15 By long LORD shall reward forbearing is a thee. prince persuaded, 25:23 The north and a soft tongue wind driveth away breaketh the rain: so [doth] bone. an angry 25:16 Hast thou countenance a found honey? eat backbiting so much as is tongue. sufficient for 25:24 [It is] thee, lest thou better to dwell be filled in the corner of therewith, and the housetop, vomit it. than with a 25:17 Withdraw brawling woman thy foot from thy and in a wide neighbour's house. house; lest he be 25:25 [As] cold weary of thee, waters to a and [so] hate thirsty soul, so thee. [is] good news 25:18 A man that from a far beareth false country. witness against 25:26 A his neighbour righteous man [is] a maul, and falling down a sword, and a before the wicked sharp arrow. [is as] a 25:19 Confidence troubled in an unfaithful fountain, and a man in time of corrupt spring. 25:27 [It is] 26:8 As he that not good to eat bindeth a stone much honey: so in a sling, so [for men] to [is] he that search their own giveth honour to glory [is not] a fool. glory. 26:9 [As] a 25:28 He that thorn goeth up [hath] no rule into the hand of over his own a drunkard, so spirit [is like] [is] a parable in a city [that is] the mouth of broken down, fools. [and] without 26:10 The great walls. [God] that formed 26:1 As snow in all [things] both summer, and as rewardeth the rain in harvest, fool, and so honour is not rewardeth seemly for a transgressors. fool. 26:11 As a dog 26:2 As the bird returneth to his by wandering, as vomit, [so] a the swallow by fool returneth to flying, so the his folly. curse causeless 26:12 Seest thou shall not come. a man wise in his 26:3 A whip for own conceit? the horse, a [there is] more bridle for the hope of a fool ass, and a rod than of him. for the fool's 26:13 The back. slothful [man] 26:4 Answer not saith, [There is] a fool according a lion in the to his folly, way; a lion [is] lest thou also be in the streets. like unto him. 26:14 [As] the 26:5 Answer a door turneth upon fool according to his hinges, so his folly, lest [doth] the he be wise in his slothful upon his own conceit. bed. 26:6 He that 26:15 The sendeth a message slothful hideth by the hand of a his hand in [his] fool cutteth off bosom; it the feet, [and] grieveth him to drinketh damage. bring it again to 26:7 The legs of his mouth. the lame are not 26:16 The equal: so [is] a sluggard [is] parable in the wiser in his own mouth of fools. conceit than seven men that within him; can render a 26:25 When he reason. speaketh fair, 26:17 He that believe him not: passeth by, [and] for [there are] meddleth with seven strife abominations in [belonging] not his heart. to him, [is like] 26:26 [Whose] one that taketh a hatred is covered dog by the ears. by deceit, his 26:18 As a mad wickedness shall [man] who casteth be showed before firebrands, the [whole] arrows, and congregation. death, 26:27 Whoso 26:19 So [is] diggeth a pit the man [that] shall fall deceiveth his therein: and he neighbour, and that rolleth a saith, Am not I stone, it will in sport? return upon him. 26:20 Where no 26:28 A lying wood is, [there] tongue hateth the fire goeth [those that are] out: so where afflicted by it; [there is] no and a flattering talebearer, the mouth worketh strife ceaseth. ruin. 26:21 [As] coals 27:1 Boast not [are] to burning thyself of to coals, and wood morrow; for thou to fire; so [is] knowest not what a contentious man a day may bring to kindle strife. forth. 27:2 Let another 26:22 The words man praise thee, of a talebearer and not thine own [are] as wounds, mouth; a and they go down stranger, and not into the thine own lips. innermost parts 27:3 A stone of the belly. [is] heavy, and 26:23 Burning the sand weighty; lips and a wicked but a fool's heart [are like] wrath [is] a potsherd heavier than them covered with both. silver dross. 27:4 Wrath [is] 26:24 He that cruel, and anger hateth [is] outrageous; dissembleth with but who [is] able his lips, and to stand before layeth up deceit envy? 27:5 Open rebuke garment that is [is] better than surety for a secret love. stranger, and 27:6 Faithful take a pledge of [are] the wounds him for a strange of a friend; but woman. the kisses of an 27:14 He that enemy [are] blesseth his deceitful. friend with a 27:7 The full loud voice, soul loatheth an rising early in honeycomb; but to the morning, it the hungry soul shall be counted every bitter a curse to him. thing is sweet. 27:15 A 27:8 As a bird continual that wandereth dropping in a from her nest, so very rainy day [is] a man that and a contentious wandereth from woman are alike. his place. 27:16 Whosoever 27:9 Ointment hideth her hideth and perfume the wind, and the rejoice the ointment of his heart: so [doth] right hand, the sweetness of [which] bewrayeth a man's friend by [itself]. hearty counsel. 27:17 Iron 27:10 Thine own sharpeneth iron; friend, and thy so a man father's friend, sharpeneth the forsake not; countenance of neither go into his friend. thy brother's 27:18 Whoso house in the day keepeth the fig of thy calamity: tree shall eat [for] better [is] the fruit a neighbour [that thereof: so he is] near than a that waiteth on brother far off. his master shall 27:11 My son, be be honoured. wise, and make my 27:19 As in heart glad, that water face I may answer him [answereth] to that reproacheth face, so the me. heart of man to 27:12 A prudent man. [man] foreseeth 27:20 Hell and the evil, [and] destruction are hideth himself; never full; so [but] the simple the eyes of man pass on, [and] are never are punished. satisfied. 27:13 Take his 27:21 [As] the fining pot for 28:2 For the silver, and the transgression of furnace for gold; a land many [are] so [is] a man to the princes his praise. thereof: but by a 27:22 Though man of thou shouldest understanding bray a fool in a [and] knowledge mortar among the state wheat with a [thereof] shall pestle, [yet] be prolonged. will not his 28:3 A poor man foolishness that oppresseth depart from him. the poor [is 27:23 Be thou like] a sweeping diligent to know rain which the state of thy leaveth no food. flocks, [and] 28:4 They that look well to thy forsake the law herds. praise the 27:24 For riches wicked: but such [are] not for as keep the law ever: and doth contend with the crown them. [endure] to every 28:5 Evil men generation? understand not 27:25 The hay judgment: but appeareth, and they that seek the tender grass the LORD showeth itself, understand all and herbs of the [things]. mountains are 28:6 Better [is] gathered. the poor that 27:26 The lambs walketh in his [are] for thy uprightness, than clothing, and the [he that is] goats [are] the perverse [in his] price of the ways, though he field. [be] rich. 27:27 And [thou 28:7 Whoso shalt have] keepeth the law goats' milk [is] a wise son: enough for thy but he that is a food, for the companion of food of thy riotous [men] household, and shameth his [for] the father. maintenance for 28:8 He that by thy maidens. usury and unjust 28:1 The wicked gain increaseth flee when no man his substance, he pursueth: but the shall gather it righteous are for him that will bold as a lion. pity the poor. 28:9 He that that wanteth turneth away his understanding ear from hearing [is] also a great the law, even his oppressor: [but] prayer [shall be] he that hateth abomination. covetousness 28:10 Whoso shall prolong causeth the [his] days. righteous to go 28:17 A man that astray in an evil doeth violence to way, he shall the blood of fall himself into [any] person his own pit: but shall flee to the the upright shall pit; let no man have good stay him. [things] in 28:18 Whoso possession. walketh uprightly 28:11 The rich shall be saved: man [is] wise in but [he that is] his own conceit; perverse [in his] but the poor that ways shall fall hath at once. understanding 28:19 He that searcheth him tilleth his land out. shall have plenty 28:12 When of bread: but he righteous [men] that followeth do rejoice, after vain [there is] great [persons] shall glory: but when have poverty the wicked rise, enough. a man is hidden. 28:20 A faithful 28:13 He that man shall abound covereth his sins with blessings: shall not but he that prosper: but maketh haste to whoso confesseth be rich shall not and forsaketh be innocent. [them] shall have 28:21 To have mercy. respect of 28:14 Happy [is] persons [is] not the man that good: for for a feareth alway: piece of bread but he that [that] man will hardeneth his transgress. heart shall fall 28:22 He that into mischief. hasteth to be 28:15 [As] a rich [hath] an roaring lion, and evil eye, and a ranging bear; considereth not [so is] a wicked that poverty ruler over the shall come upon poor people. him. 28:16 The prince 28:23 He that rebuketh a man righteous are in afterwards shall authority, the find more favour people rejoice: than he that but when the flattereth with wicked beareth the tongue. rule, the people 28:24 Whoso mourn. robbeth his 29:3 Whoso father or his loveth wisdom mother, and rejoiceth his saith, [It is] no father: but he transgression; that keepeth the same [is] the company with companion of a harlots spendeth destroyer. [his] substance. 28:25 He that is 29:4 The king by of a proud heart judgment stirreth up establisheth the strife: but he land: but he that that putteth his receiveth gifts trust in the LORD overthroweth it. shall be made 29:5 A man that fat. flattereth his 28:26 He that neighbour trusteth in his spreadeth a net own heart is a for his feet. fool: but whoso 29:6 In the walketh wisely, transgression of he shall be an evil man delivered. [there is] a 28:27 He that snare: but the giveth unto the righteous doth poor shall not sing and rejoice. lack: but he that hideth his eyes 29:7 The shall have many a righteous curse. considereth the 28:28 When the cause of the wicked rise, men poor: [but] the hide themselves: wicked regardeth but when they not to know [it]. perish, the righteous 29:8 Scornful increase. men bring a city 29:1 He, that into a snare: but being often wise [men] turn reproved away wrath. hardeneth [his] 29:9 [If] a wise neck, shall man contendeth suddenly be with a foolish destroyed, and man, whether he that without rage or laugh, remedy. [there is] no 29:2 When the rest. 29:10 The keepeth the law, bloodthirsty hate happy [is] he. the upright: but 29:19 A servant the just seek his will not be soul. corrected by 29:11 A fool words: for though uttereth all his he understand he mind: but a wise will not answer. [man] keepeth it 29:20 Seest thou in till a man [that is] afterwards. hasty in his 29:12 If a ruler words? [there is] hearken to lies, more hope of a all his servants fool than of him. [are] wicked. 29:13 The poor 29:21 He that and the deceitful delicately man meet bringeth up his together: the servant from a LORD lighteneth child shall have both their eyes. him become [his] 29:14 The king son at the that faithfully length. judgeth the poor, 29:22 An angry his throne shall man stirreth up be established strife, and a for ever. furious man 29:15 The rod aboundeth in and reproof give transgression. wisdom: but a 29:23 A man's child left [to pride shall bring himself] bringeth him low: but his mother to honour shall shame. uphold the humble 29:16 When the in spirit. wicked are 29:24 Whoso is multiplied, partner with a transgression thief hateth his increaseth: but own soul: he the righteous heareth cursing, shall see their and bewrayeth fall. [it] not. 29:17 Correct 29:25 The fear thy son, and he of man bringeth a shall give thee snare: but whoso rest; yea, he putteth his trust shall give in the LORD shall delight unto thy be safe. soul. 29:26 Many seek 29:18 Where the ruler's [there is] no favour; but vision, the [every] man's people perish: judgment [cometh] but he that from the LORD. 29:27 An unjust 30:7 Two man [is] an [things] have I abomination to required of thee; the just: and [he deny me [them] that is] upright not before I die: in the way [is] abomination to 30:8 Remove far the wicked. from me vanity 30:1 The words and lies: give me of Agur the son neither poverty of Jakeh, [even] nor riches; feed the prophecy: the me with food man spake unto convenient for Ithiel, even unto me: Ithiel and Ucal, 30:9 Lest I be 30:2 Surely I full, and deny [am] more brutish [thee], and say, than [any] man, Who [is] the and have not the LORD? or lest I understanding of be poor, and a man. steal, and take 30:3 I neither the name of my learned wisdom, God [in vain]. nor have the 30:10 Accuse not knowledge of the a servant unto holy. his master, lest 30:4 Who hath he curse thee, ascended up into and thou be found heaven, or guilty. descended? who 30:11 [There is] hath gathered the a generation wind in his [that] curseth fists? who hath their father, and bound the waters doth not bless in a garment? who their mother. hath established 30:12 [There is] all the ends of a generation the earth? what [that are] pure [is] his name, in their own and what [is] his eyes, and [yet] son's name, if is not washed thou canst tell? from their 30:5 Every word filthiness. of God [is] pure: 30:13 [There is] he [is] a shield a generation, O unto them that how lofty are put their trust their eyes! and in him. their eyelids are 30:6 Add thou lifted up. not unto his 30:14 [There is] words, lest he a generation, reprove thee, and whose teeth [are thou be found a as] swords, and liar. their jaw teeth [as] knives, to she eateth, and devour the poor wipeth her mouth, from off the and saith, I have earth, and the done no needy from wickedness. [among] men. 30:21 For three 30:15 The [things] the horseleach hath earth is two daughters, disquieted, and [crying], Give, for four [which] give. There are it cannot bear: three [things 30:22 For a that] are never servant when he satisfied, [yea], reigneth; and a four [things] say fool when he is not, [It is] filled with meat; enough: 30:16 The grave; 30:23 For an and the barren odious [woman] womb; the earth when she is [that] is not married; and an filled with handmaid that is water; and the heir to her fire [that] saith mistress. not, [It is] 30:24 There be enough. four [things 30:17 The eye which are] little [that] mocketh at upon the earth, [his] father, and but they [are] despiseth to obey exceeding wise: [his] mother, the 30:25 The ants ravens of the [are] a people valley shall pick not strong, yet it out, and the they prepare young eagles their meat in the shall eat it. summer; 30:18 There be 30:26 The conies three [things [are but] a which] are too feeble folk, yet wonderful for me, make they their yea, four which I houses in the know not: rocks; 30:19 The way of 30:27 The an eagle in the locusts have no air; the way of a king, yet go they serpent upon a forth all of them rock; the way of by bands; a ship in the 30:28 The spider midst of the sea; taketh hold with and the way of a her hands, and is man with a maid. in kings' 30:20 Such [is] palaces. the way of an 30:29 There be adulterous woman; three [things] which go well, not for kings to yea, four are drink wine; nor comely in going: for princes 30:30 A lion strong drink: [which is] 31:5 Lest they strongest among drink, and forget beasts, and the law, and turneth not away pervert the for any; judgment of any 30:31 A of the afflicted. greyhound; an he goat also; and a 31:6 Give strong king, against drink unto him whom [there is] that is ready to no rising up. perish, and wine 30:32 If thou unto those that hast done be of heavy foolishly in hearts. lifting up 31:7 Let him thyself, or if drink, and forget thou hast thought his poverty, and evil, [lay] thine remember his hand upon thy misery no more. mouth. 31:8 Open thy 30:33 Surely the mouth for the churning of milk dumb in the cause bringeth forth of all such as butter, and the are appointed to wringing of the destruction. nose bringeth 31:9 Open thy forth blood: so mouth, judge the forcing of righteously, and wrath bringeth plead the cause forth strife. of the poor and 31:1 The words needy. of king Lemuel, 31:10 Who can the prophecy that find a virtuous his mother taught woman? for her him. price [is] far 31:2 What, my above rubies. son? and what, 31:11 The heart the son of my of her husband womb? and what, doth safely trust the son of my in her, so that vows? he shall have no 31:3 Give not need of spoil. thy strength unto 31:12 She will women, nor thy do him good and ways to that not evil all the which destroyeth days of her life. kings. 31:4 [It is] not 31:13 She for kings, O seeketh wool, and Lemuel, [it is] flax, and worketh willingly with of tapestry; her her hands. clothing [is] 31:14 She is silk and purple. like the 31:23 Her merchants' ships; husband is known she bringeth her in the gates, food from afar. when he sitteth 31:15 She riseth among the elders also while it is of the land. yet night, and 31:24 She maketh giveth meat to fine linen, and her household, selleth [it]; and and a portion to delivereth her maidens. girdles unto the 31:16 She merchant. considereth a 31:25 Strength field, and buyeth and honour [are] it: with the her clothing; and fruit of her she shall rejoice hands she in time to come. planteth a 31:26 She vineyard. openeth her mouth 31:17 She with wisdom; and girdeth her loins in her tongue with strength, [is] the law of and strengtheneth kindness. her arms. 31:27 She 31:18 She looketh well to perceiveth that the ways of her her merchandise household, and [is] good: her eateth not the candle goeth not bread of out by night. idleness. 31:19 She layeth 31:28 Her her hands to the children arise spindle, and her up, and call her hands hold the blessed; her distaff. husband [also], 31:20 She and he praiseth stretcheth out her. her hand to the 31:29 Many poor; yea, she daughters have reacheth forth done virtuously, her hands to the but thou needy. excellest them 31:21 She is not all. afraid of the 31:30 Favour snow for her [is] deceitful, household: for and beauty [is] all her household vain: [but] a [are] clothed woman [that] with scarlet. feareth the LORD, 31:22 She maketh she shall be herself coverings praised. 31:31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. ^Z^Z ~~~~~~