---- CHAPTER  1 
# 1 THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON THE SON OF DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL;
# 2  TO KNOW WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION; TO PERCEIVE THE WORDS OF UNDERSTANDING;
# 3  TO RECEIVE THE INSTRUCTION OF WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND JUDGMENT, AND EQUITY;
# 4  TO GIVE SUBTILTY TO THE SIMPLE, TO THE YOUNG MAN KNOWLEDGE AND DISCRETION.
# 5  A WISE MAN WILL HEAR, AND WILL INCREASE LEARNING; AND A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING SHALL ATTAIN UNTO WISE COUNSELS:
# 6  TO UNDERSTAND A PROVERB, AND THE INTERPRETATION; THE WORDS OF THE WISE, AND THEIR DARK SAYINGS.
# 7  THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE: BUT FOOLS DESPISE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION.
# 8  MY SON, HEAR THE INSTRUCTION OF THY FATHER, AND FORSAKE NOT THE LAW OF THY MOTHER:
# 9  FOR THEY SHALL BE AN ORNAMENT OF GRACE UNTO THY HEAD, AND CHAINS ABOUT THY NECK.
# 10  MY SON, IF SINNERS ENTICE THEE, CONSENT THOU NOT.
# 11  IF THEY SAY, COME WITH US, LET US LAY WAIT FOR BLOOD, LET US LURK PRIVILY FOR THE INNOCENT WITHOUT CAUSE:
# 12  LET US SWALLOW THEM UP ALIVE AS THE GRAVE; AND WHOLE, AS THOSE THAT GO DOWN INTO THE PIT:
# 13  WE SHALL FIND ALL PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE, WE SHALL FILL OUR HOUSES WITH SPOIL:
# 14  CAST IN THY LOT AMONG US; LET US ALL HAVE ONE PURSE:
# 15  MY SON, WALK NOT THOU IN THE WAY WITH THEM; REFRAIN THY FOOT FROM THEIR PATH:
# 16  FOR THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL, AND MAKE HASTE TO SHED BLOOD.
# 17  SURELY IN VAIN THE NET IS SPREAD IN THE SIGHT OF ANY BIRD.
# 18  AND THEY LAY WAIT FOR THEIR OWN BLOOD; THEY LURK PRIVILY FOR THEIR OWN LIVES.
# 19  SO ARE THE WAYS OF EVERY ONE THAT IS GREEDY OF GAIN; WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE LIFE OF THE OWNERS THEREOF.
# 20  WISDOM CRIETH WITHOUT; SHE UTTERETH HER VOICE IN THE STREETS:
# 21  SHE CRIETH IN THE CHIEF PLACE OF CONCOURSE, IN THE OPENINGS OF THE GATES: IN THE CITY SHE UTTERETH HER WORDS, SAYING,
# 22  HOW LONG, YE SIMPLE ONES, WILL YE LOVE SIMPLICITY? AND THE SCORNERS DELIGHT IN THEIR SCORNING, AND FOOLS HATE KNOWLEDGE?
# 23  TURN YOU AT MY REPROOF: BEHOLD, I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT UNTO YOU, I WILL MAKE KNOWN MY WORDS UNTO YOU.
# 24  BECAUSE I HAVE CALLED, AND YE REFUSED; I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY HAND, AND NO MAN REGARDED;
# 25  BUT YE HAVE SET AT NOUGHT ALL MY COUNSEL, AND WOULD NONE OF MY REPROOF:
# 26  I ALSO WILL LAUGH AT YOUR CALAMITY; I WILL MOCK WHEN YOUR FEAR COMETH;
# 27  WHEN YOUR FEAR COMETH AS DESOLATION, AND YOUR DESTRUCTION COMETH AS A WHIRLWIND; WHEN DISTRESS AND ANGUISH COMETH UPON YOU.
# 28  THEN SHALL THEY CALL UPON ME, BUT I WILL NOT ANSWER; THEY SHALL SEEK ME EARLY, BUT THEY SHALL NOT FIND ME:
# 29  FOR THAT THEY HATED KNOWLEDGE, AND DID NOT CHOOSE THE FEAR OF THE LORD:
# 30  THEY WOULD NONE OF MY COUNSEL: THEY DESPISED ALL MY REPROOF.
# 31  THEREFORE SHALL THEY EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THEIR OWN WAY, AND BE FILLED WITH THEIR OWN DEVICES.
# 32  FOR THE TURNING AWAY OF THE SIMPLE SHALL SLAY THEM, AND THE PROSPERITY OF FOOLS SHALL DESTROY THEM.
# 33  BUT WHOSO HEARKENETH UNTO ME SHALL DWELL SAFELY, AND SHALL BE QUIET FROM FEAR OF EVIL.
---- CHAPTER  2 
# 1 MY SON, IF THOU WILT RECEIVE MY WORDS, AND HIDE MY COMMANDMENTS WITH THEE;
# 2  SO THAT THOU INCLINE THINE EAR UNTO WISDOM, AND APPLY THINE HEART TO UNDERSTANDING;
# 3  YEA, IF THOU CRIEST AFTER KNOWLEDGE, AND LIFTEST UP THY VOICE FOR UNDERSTANDING;
# 4  IF THOU SEEKEST HER AS SILVER, AND SEARCHEST FOR HER AS FOR HID TREASURES;
# 5  THEN SHALT THOU UNDERSTAND THE FEAR OF THE LORD, AND FIND THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
# 6  FOR THE LORD GIVETH WISDOM: OUT OF HIS MOUTH COMETH KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING.
# 7  HE LAYETH UP SOUND WISDOM FOR THE RIGHTEOUS: HE IS A BUCKLER TO THEM THAT WALK UPRIGHTLY.
# 8  HE KEEPETH THE PATHS OF JUDGMENT, AND PRESERVETH THE WAY OF HIS SAINTS.
# 9  THEN SHALT THOU UNDERSTAND RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND JUDGMENT, AND EQUITY; YEA, EVERY GOOD PATH.
# 10  WHEN WISDOM ENTERETH INTO THINE HEART, AND KNOWLEDGE IS PLEASANT UNTO THY SOUL;
# 11  DISCRETION SHALL PRESERVE THEE, UNDERSTANDING SHALL KEEP THEE:
# 12  TO DELIVER THEE FROM THE WAY OF THE EVIL MAN, FROM THE MAN THAT SPEAKETH FROWARD THINGS;
# 13  WHO LEAVE THE PATHS OF UPRIGHTNESS, TO WALK IN THE WAYS OF DARKNESS;
# 14  WHO REJOICE TO DO EVIL, AND DELIGHT IN THE FROWARDNESS OF THE WICKED;
# 15  WHOSE WAYS ARE CROOKED, AND THEY FROWARD IN THEIR PATHS:
# 16  TO DELIVER THEE FROM THE STRANGE WOMAN, EVEN FROM THE STRANGER WHICH FLATTERETH WITH HER WORDS;
# 17  WHICH FORSAKETH THE GUIDE OF HER YOUTH, AND FORGETTETH THE COVENANT OF HER GOD.
# 18  FOR HER HOUSE INCLINETH UNTO DEATH, AND HER PATHS UNTO THE DEAD.
# 19  NONE THAT GO UNTO HER RETURN AGAIN, NEITHER TAKE THEY HOLD OF THE PATHS OF LIFE.
# 20  THAT THOU MAYEST WALK IN THE WAY OF GOOD MEN, AND KEEP THE PATHS OF THE RIGHTEOUS.
# 21  FOR THE UPRIGHT SHALL DWELL IN THE LAND, AND THE PERFECT SHALL REMAIN IN IT.
# 22  BUT THE WICKED SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM THE EARTH, AND THE TRANSGRESSORS SHALL BE ROOTED OUT OF IT.
---- CHAPTER  3 
# 1 MY SON, FORGET NOT MY LAW; BUT LET THINE HEART KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS:
# 2  FOR LENGTH OF DAYS, AND LONG LIFE, AND PEACE, SHALL THEY ADD TO THEE.
# 3  LET NOT MERCY AND TRUTH FORSAKE THEE: BIND THEM ABOUT THY NECK; WRITE THEM UPON THE TABLE OF THINE HEART:
# 4  SO SHALT THOU FIND FAVOUR AND GOOD UNDERSTANDING IN THE SIGHT OF GOD AND MAN.
# 5  TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL THINE HEART; AND LEAN NOT UNTO THINE OWN UNDERSTANDING.
# 6  IN ALL THY WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT THY PATHS.
# 7  BE NOT WISE IN THINE OWN EYES: FEAR THE LORD, AND DEPART FROM EVIL.
# 8  IT SHALL BE HEALTH TO THY NAVEL, AND MARROW TO THY BONES.
# 9  HONOUR THE LORD WITH THY SUBSTANCE, AND WITH THE FIRSTFRUITS OF ALL THINE INCREASE:
# 10  SO SHALL THY BARNS BE FILLED WITH PLENTY, AND THY PRESSES SHALL BURST OUT WITH NEW WINE.
# 11  MY SON, DESPISE NOT THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD; NEITHER BE WEARY OF HIS CORRECTION:
# 12  FOR WHOM THE LORD LOVETH HE CORRECTETH; EVEN AS A FATHER THE SON IN WHOM HE DELIGHTETH.
# 13  HAPPY IS THE MAN THAT FINDETH WISDOM, AND THE MAN THAT GETTETH UNDERSTANDING.
# 14  FOR THE MERCHANDISE OF IT IS BETTER THAN THE MERCHANDISE OF SILVER, AND THE GAIN THEREOF THAN FINE GOLD.
# 15  SHE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN RUBIES: AND ALL THE THINGS THOU CANST DESIRE ARE NOT TO BE COMPARED UNTO HER.
# 16  LENGTH OF DAYS IS IN HER RIGHT HAND; AND IN HER LEFT HAND RICHES AND HONOUR.
# 17  HER WAYS ARE WAYS OF PLEASANTNESS, AND ALL HER PATHS ARE PEACE.
# 18  SHE IS A TREE OF LIFE TO THEM THAT LAY HOLD UPON HER: AND HAPPY IS EVERY ONE THAT RETAINETH HER.
# 19  THE LORD BY WISDOM HATH FOUNDED THE EARTH; BY UNDERSTANDING HATH HE ESTABLISHED THE HEAVENS.
# 20  BY HIS KNOWLEDGE THE DEPTHS ARE BROKEN UP, AND THE CLOUDS DROP DOWN THE DEW.
# 21  MY SON, LET NOT THEM DEPART FROM THINE EYES: KEEP SOUND WISDOM AND DISCRETION:
# 22  SO SHALL THEY BE LIFE UNTO THY SOUL, AND GRACE TO THY NECK.
# 23  THEN SHALT THOU WALK IN THY WAY SAFELY, AND THY FOOT SHALL NOT STUMBLE.
# 24  WHEN THOU LIEST DOWN, THOU SHALT NOT BE AFRAID: YEA, THOU SHALT LIE DOWN, AND THY SLEEP SHALL BE SWEET.
# 25  BE NOT AFRAID OF SUDDEN FEAR, NEITHER OF THE DESOLATION OF THE WICKED, WHEN IT COMETH.
# 26  FOR THE LORD SHALL BE THY CONFIDENCE, AND SHALL KEEP THY FOOT FROM BEING TAKEN.
# 27  WITHHOLD NOT GOOD FROM THEM TO WHOM IT IS DUE, WHEN IT IS IN THE POWER OF THINE HAND TO DO IT.
# 28  SAY NOT UNTO THY NEIGHBOUR, GO, AND COME AGAIN, AND TO MORROW I WILL GIVE; WHEN THOU HAST IT BY THEE.
# 29  DEVISE NOT EVIL AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR, SEEING HE DWELLETH SECURELY BY THEE.
# 30  STRIVE NOT WITH A MAN WITHOUT CAUSE, IF HE HAVE DONE THEE NO HARM.
# 31  ENVY THOU NOT THE OPPRESSOR, AND CHOOSE NONE OF HIS WAYS.
# 32  FOR THE FROWARD IS ABOMINATION TO THE LORD: BUT HIS SECRET IS WITH THE RIGHTEOUS.
# 33  THE CURSE OF THE LORD IS IN THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED: BUT HE BLESSETH THE HABITATION OF THE JUST.
# 34  SURELY HE SCORNETH THE SCORNERS: BUT HE GIVETH GRACE UNTO THE LOWLY.
# 35  THE WISE SHALL INHERIT GLORY: BUT SHAME SHALL BE THE PROMOTION OF FOOLS.
---- CHAPTER  4 
# 1 HEAR, YE CHILDREN, THE INSTRUCTION OF A FATHER, AND ATTEND TO KNOW UNDERSTANDING.
# 2  FOR I GIVE YOU GOOD DOCTRINE, FORSAKE YE NOT MY LAW.
# 3  FOR I WAS MY FATHERS SON, TENDER AND ONLY BELOVED IN THE SIGHT OF MY MOTHER.
# 4  HE TAUGHT ME ALSO, AND SAID UNTO ME, LET THINE HEART RETAIN MY WORDS: KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, AND LIVE.
# 5  GET WISDOM, GET UNDERSTANDING: FORGET IT NOT; NEITHER DECLINE FROM THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH.
# 6  FORSAKE HER NOT, AND SHE SHALL PRESERVE THEE: LOVE HER, AND SHE SHALL KEEP THEE. IT
# 7  WISDOM IS THE PRINCIPAL THING; THEREFORE GET WISDOM: AND WITH ALL THY GETTING GET UNDERSTANDING.
# 8  EXALT HER, AND SHE SHALL PROMOTE THEE: SHE SHALL BRING THEE TO HONOUR, WHEN THOU DOST EMBRACE HER.
# 9  SHE SHALL GIVE TO THINE HEAD AN ORNAMENT OF GRACE: A CROWN OF GLORY SHALL SHE DELIVER TO THEE.
# 10  HEAR, O MY SON, AND RECEIVE MY SAYINGS; AND THE YEARS OF THY LIFE SHALL BE MANY.
# 11  I HAVE TAUGHT THEE IN THE WAY OF WISDOM; I HAVE LED THEE IN RIGHT PATHS.
# 12  WHEN THOU GOEST, THY STEPS SHALL NOT BE STRAITENED; AND WHEN THOU RUNNEST, THOU SHALT NOT STUMBLE.
# 13  TAKE FAST HOLD OF INSTRUCTION; LET HER NOT GO: KEEP HER; FOR SHE IS THY LIFE.
# 14  ENTER NOT INTO THE PATH OF THE WICKED, AND GO NOT IN THE WAY OF EVIL MEN.
# 15  AVOID IT, PASS NOT BY IT, TURN FROM IT, AND PASS AWAY.
# 16  FOR THEY SLEEP NOT, EXCEPT THEY HAVE DONE MISCHIEF; AND THEIR SLEEP IS TAKEN AWAY, UNLESS THEY CAUSE SOME TO FALL.
# 17  FOR THEY EAT THE BREAD OF WICKEDNESS, AND DRINK THE WINE OF VIOLENCE.
# 18  BUT THE PATH OF THE JUST IS AS THE SHINING LIGHT, THAT SHINETH MORE AND MORE UNTO THE PERFECT DAY.
# 19  THE WAY OF THE WICKED IS AS DARKNESS: THEY KNOW NOT AT WHAT THEY STUMBLE.
# 20  MY SON, ATTEND TO MY WORDS; INCLINE THINE EAR UNTO MY SAYINGS.
# 21  LET THEM NOT DEPART FROM THINE EYES; KEEP THEM IN THE MIDST OF THINE HEART.
# 22  FOR THEY ARE LIFE UNTO THOSE THAT FIND THEM, AND HEALTH TO ALL THEIR FLESH.
# 23  KEEP THY HEART WITH ALL DILIGENCE; FOR OUT OF IT ARE THE ISSUES OF LIFE.
# 24  PUT AWAY FROM THEE A FROWARD MOUTH, AND PERVERSE LIPS PUT FAR FROM THEE.
# 25  LET THINE EYES LOOK RIGHT ON, AND LET THINE EYELIDS LOOK STRAIGHT BEFORE THEE.
# 26  PONDER THE PATH OF THY FEET, AND LET ALL THY WAYS BE ESTABLISHED.
# 27  TURN NOT TO THE RIGHT HAND NOR TO THE LEFT: REMOVE THY FOOT FROM EVIL.
---- CHAPTER  5 
# 1 MY SON, ATTEND UNTO MY WISDOM, AND BOW THINE EAR TO MY UNDERSTANDING:
# 2  THAT THOU MAYEST REGARD DISCRETION, AND THAT THY LIPS MAY KEEP KNOWLEDGE.
# 3  FOR THE LIPS OF A STRANGE WOMAN DROP AS AN HONEYCOMB, AND HER MOUTH IS SMOOTHER THAN OIL:
# 4  BUT HER END IS BITTER AS WORMWOOD, SHARP AS A TWO-EDGED SWORD.
# 5  HER FEET GO DOWN TO DEATH; HER STEPS TAKE HOLD ON HELL.
# 6  LEST THOU SHOULDEST PONDER THE PATH OF LIFE, HER WAYS ARE MOVEABLE, THAT THOU CANST NOT KNOW THEM.
# 7  HEAR ME NOW THEREFORE, O YE CHILDREN, AND DEPART NOT FROM THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH.
# 8  REMOVE THY WAY FAR FROM HER, AND COME NOT NIGH THE DOOR OF HER HOUSE:
# 9  LEST THOU GIVE THINE HONOUR UNTO OTHERS, AND THY YEARS UNTO THE CRUEL:
# 10  LEST STRANGERS BE FILLED WITH THY WEALTH; AND THY LABOURS BE IN THE HOUSE OF A STRANGER;
# 11  AND THOU MOURN AT THE LAST, WHEN THY FLESH AND THY BODY ARE CONSUMED,
# 12  AND SAY, HOW HAVE I HATED INSTRUCTION, AND MY HEART DESPISED REPROOF;
# 13  AND HAVE NOT OBEYED THE VOICE OF MY TEACHERS, NOR INCLINED MINE EAR TO THEM THAT INSTRUCTED ME!
# 14  I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION AND ASSEMBLY.
# 15  DRINK WATERS OUT OF THINE OWN CISTERN, AND RUNNING WATERS OUT OF THINE OWN WELL.
# 16  LET THY FOUNTAINS BE DISPERSED ABROAD, AND RIVERS OF WATERS IN THE STREETS.
# 17  LET THEM BE ONLY THINE OWN, AND NOT STRANGERS WITH THEE.
# 18  LET THY FOUNTAIN BE BLESSED: AND REJOICE WITH THE WIFE OF THY YOUTH.
# 19  LET HER BE AS THE LOVING HIND AND PLEASANT ROE; LET HER BREASTS SATISFY THEE AT ALL TIMES; AND BE THOU RAVISHED ALWAYS WITH
 HER LOVE.
# 20  AND WHY WILT THOU, MY SON, BE RAVISHED WITH A STRANGE WOMAN, AND EMBRACE THE BOSOM OF A STRANGER?
# 21  FOR THE WAYS OF MAN ARE BEFORE THE EYES OF THE LORD, AND HE PONDERETH ALL HIS GOINGS.
# 22  HIS OWN INIQUITIES SHALL TAKE THE WICKED HIMSELF, AND HE SHALL BE HOLDEN WITH THE CORDS OF HIS SINS.
# 23  HE SHALL DIE WITHOUT INSTRUCTION; AND IN THE GREATNESS OF HIS FOLLY HE SHALL GO ASTRAY.
---- CHAPTER  6 
# 1 MY SON, IF THOU BE SURETY FOR THY FRIEND, IF THOU HAST STRICKEN THY HAND WITH A STRANGER,
# 2  THOU ART SNARED WITH THE WORDS OF THY MOUTH, THOU ART TAKEN WITH THE WORDS OF THY MOUTH.
# 3  DO THIS NOW, MY SON, AND DELIVER THYSELF, WHEN THOU ART COME INTO THE HAND OF THY FRIEND; GO, HUMBLE THYSELF, AND MAKE SURE
 THY FRIEND.
# 4  GIVE NOT SLEEP TO THINE EYES, NOR SLUMBER TO THINE EYELIDS.
# 5  DELIVER THYSELF AS A ROE FROM THE HAND OF THE HUNTER, AND AS A BIRD FROM THE HAND OF THE FOWLER.
# 6  GO TO THE ANT, THOU SLUGGARD; CONSIDER HER WAYS, AND BE WISE:
# 7  WHICH HAVING NO GUIDE, OVERSEER, OR RULER,
# 8  PROVIDETH HER MEAT IN THE SUMMER, AND GATHERETH HER FOOD IN THE HARVEST.
# 9  HOW LONG WILT THOU SLEEP, O SLUGGARD? WHEN WILT THOU ARISE OUT OF THY SLEEP?
# 10  YET A LITTLE SLEEP, A LITTLE SLUMBER, A LITTLE FOLDING OF THE HANDS TO SLEEP:
# 11  SO SHALL THY POVERTY COME AS ONE THAT TRAVELLETH, AND THY WANT AS AN ARMED MAN.
# 12  A NAUGHTY PERSON, A WICKED MAN, WALKETH WITH A FROWARD MOUTH.
# 13  HE WINKETH WITH HIS EYES, HE SPEAKETH WITH HIS FEET, HE TEACHETH WITH HIS FINGERS;
# 14  FROWARDNESS IS IN HIS HEART, HE DEVISETH MISCHIEF CONTINUALLY; HE SOWETH DISCORD.
# 15  THEREFORE SHALL HIS CALAMITY COME SUDDENLY; SUDDENLY SHALL HE BE BROKEN WITHOUT REMEDY.
# 16  THESE SIX THINGS DOTH THE LORD HATE: YEA, SEVEN ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO HIM:
# 17  A PROUD LOOK, A LYING TONGUE, AND HANDS THAT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD,
# 18  AN HEART THAT DEVISETH WICKED IMAGINATIONS, FEET THAT BE SWIFT IN RUNNING TO MISCHIEF,
# 19  A FALSE WITNESS THAT SPEAKETH LIES, AND HE THAT SOWETH DISCORD AMONG BRETHREN.
# 20  MY SON, KEEP THY FATHERS COMMANDMENT, AND FORSAKE NOT THE LAW OF THY MOTHER:
# 21  BIND THEM CONTINUALLY UPON THINE HEART, AND TIE THEM ABOUT THY NECK.
# 22  WHEN THOU GOEST, IT SHALL LEAD THEE; WHEN THOU SLEEPEST, IT SHALL KEEP THEE; AND WHEN THOU AWAKEST, IT SHALL TALK WITH THEE
.
# 23  FOR THE COMMANDMENT IS A LAMP; AND THE LAW IS LIGHT; AND REPROOFS OF INSTRUCTION ARE THE WAY OF LIFE:
# 24  TO KEEP THEE FROM THE EVIL WOMAN, FROM THE FLATTERY OF THE TONGUE OF A STRANGE WOMAN.
# 25  LUST NOT AFTER HER BEAUTY IN THINE HEART; NEITHER LET HER TAKE THEE WITH HER EYELIDS.
# 26  FOR BY MEANS OF A WHORISH WOMAN A MAN IS BROUGHT TO A PIECE OF BREAD: AND THE ADULTRESS WILL HUNT FOR THE PRECIOUS LIFE.
# 27  CAN A MAN TAKE FIRE IN HIS BOSOM, AND HIS CLOTHES NOT BE BURNED?
# 28  CAN ONE GO UPON HOT COALS, AND HIS FEET NOT BE BURNED?
# 29  SO HE THAT GOETH IN TO HIS NEIGHBOURS WIFE; WHOSOEVER TOUCHETH HER SHALL NOT BE INNOCENT.
# 30  MEN DO NOT DESPISE A THIEF, IF HE STEAL TO SATISFY HIS SOUL WHEN HE IS HUNGRY;
# 31  BUT IF HE BE FOUND, HE SHALL RESTORE SEVENFOLD; HE SHALL GIVE ALL THE SUBSTANCE OF HIS HOUSE.
# 32  BUT WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN LACKETH UNDERSTANDING: HE THAT DOETH IT DESTROYETH HIS OWN SOUL.
# 33  A WOUND AND DISHONOUR SHALL HE GET; AND HIS REPROACH SHALL NOT BE WIPED AWAY.
# 34  FOR JEALOUSY IS THE RAGE OF A MAN: THEREFORE HE WILL NOT SPARE IN THE DAY OF VENGEANCE.
# 35  HE WILL NOT REGARD ANY RANSOM; NEITHER WILL HE REST CONTENT, THOUGH THOU GIVEST MANY GIFTS.
---- CHAPTER  7 
# 1 MY SON, KEEP MY WORDS, AND LAY UP MY COMMANDMENTS WITH THEE.
# 2  KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, AND LIVE; AND MY LAW AS THE APPLE OF THINE EYE.
# 3  BIND THEM UPON THY FINGERS, WRITE THEM UPON THE TABLE OF THINE HEART.
# 4  SAY UNTO WISDOM, THOU ART MY SISTER; AND CALL UNDERSTANDING THY KINSWOMAN:
# 5  THAT THEY MAY KEEP THEE FROM THE STRANGE WOMAN, FROM THE STRANGER WHICH FLATTERETH WITH HER WORDS.
# 6  FOR AT THE WINDOW OF MY HOUSE I LOOKED THROUGH MY CASEMENT,
# 7  AND BEHELD AMONG THE SIMPLE ONES, I DISCERNED AMONG THE YOUTHS, A YOUNG MAN VOID OF UNDERSTANDING,
# 8  PASSING THROUGH THE STREET NEAR HER CORNER; AND HE WENT THE WAY TO HER HOUSE,
# 9  IN THE TWILIGHT, IN THE EVENING, IN THE BLACK AND DARK NIGHT:
# 10  AND, BEHOLD, THERE MET HIM A WOMAN WITH THE ATTIRE OF AN HARLOT, AND SUBTIL OF HEART.
# 11  (SHE IS LOUD AND STUBBORN; HER FEET ABIDE NOT IN HER HOUSE:
# 12  NOW IS SHE WITHOUT, NOW IN THE STREETS, AND LIETH IN WAIT AT EVERY CORNER.)
# 13  SO SHE CAUGHT HIM, AND KISSED HIM, AND WITH AN IMPUDENT FACE SAID UNTO HIM,
# 14  I HAVE PEACE OFFERINGS WITH ME; THIS DAY HAVE I PAYED MY VOWS.
# 15  THEREFORE CAME I FORTH TO MEET THEE, DILIGENTLY TO SEEK THY FACE, AND I HAVE FOUND THEE.
# 16  I HAVE DECKED MY BED WITH COVERINGS OF TAPESTRY, WITH CARVED WORKS, WITH FINE LINEN OF EGYPT.
# 17  I HAVE PERFUMED MY BED WITH MYRRH, ALOES, AND CINNAMON.
# 18  COME, LET US TAKE OUR FILL OF LOVE UNTIL THE MORNING: LET US SOLACE OURSELVES WITH LOVES.
# 19  FOR THE GOODMAN IS NOT AT HOME, HE IS GONE A LONG JOURNEY:
# 20  HE HATH TAKEN A BAG OF MONEY WITH HIM, AND WILL COME HOME AT THE DAY APPOINTED.
# 21  WITH HER MUCH FAIR SPEECH SHE CAUSED HIM TO YIELD, WITH THE FLATTERING OF HER LIPS SHE FORCED HIM.
# 22  HE GOETH AFTER HER STRAIGHTWAY, AS AN OX GOETH TO THE SLAUGHTER, OR AS A FOOL TO THE CORRECTION OF THE STOCKS;
# 23  TILL A DART STRIKE THROUGH HIS LIVER; AS A BIRD HASTETH TO THE SNARE, AND KNOWETH NOT THAT IT IS FOR HIS LIFE.
# 24  HEARKEN UNTO ME NOW THEREFORE, O YE CHILDREN, AND ATTEND TO THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH.
# 25  LET NOT THINE HEART DECLINE TO HER WAYS, GO NOT ASTRAY IN HER PATHS.
# 26  FOR SHE HATH CAST DOWN MANY WOUNDED: YEA, MANY STRONG MEN HAVE BEEN SLAIN BY HER.
# 27  HER HOUSE IS THE WAY TO HELL, GOING DOWN TO THE CHAMBERS OF DEATH.
---- CHAPTER  8 
# 1 DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY? AND UNDERSTANDING PUT FORTH HER VOICE?
# 2  SHE STANDETH IN THE TOP OF HIGH PLACES, BY THE WAY IN THE PLACES OF THE PATHS.
# 3  SHE CRIETH AT THE GATES, AT THE ENTRY OF THE CITY, AT THE COMING IN AT THE DOORS.
# 4  UNTO YOU, O MEN, I CALL; AND MY VOICE IS TO THE SONS OF MAN.
# 5  O YE SIMPLE, UNDERSTAND WISDOM: AND, YE FOOLS, BE YE OF AN UNDERSTANDING HEART.
# 6  HEAR; FOR I WILL SPEAK OF EXCELLENT THINGS; AND THE OPENING OF MY LIPS SHALL BE RIGHT THINGS.
# 7  FOR MY MOUTH SHALL SPEAK TRUTH; AND WICKEDNESS IS AN ABOMINATION TO MY LIPS.
# 8  ALL THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH ARE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS; THERE IS NOTHING FROWARD OR PERVERSE IN THEM.
# 9  THEY ARE ALL PLAIN TO HIM THAT UNDERSTANDETH, AND RIGHT TO THEM THAT FIND KNOWLEDGE.
# 10  RECEIVE MY INSTRUCTION, AND NOT SILVER; AND KNOWLEDGE RATHER THAN CHOICE GOLD.
# 11  FOR WISDOM IS BETTER THAN RUBIES; AND ALL THE THINGS THAT MAY BE DESIRED ARE NOT TO BE COMPARED TO IT.
# 12  I WISDOM DWELL WITH PRUDENCE, AND FIND OUT KNOWLEDGE OF WITTY INVENTIONS.
# 13  THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS TO HATE EVIL: PRIDE, AND ARROGANCY, AND THE EVIL WAY, AND THE FROWARD MOUTH, DO I HATE.
# 14  COUNSEL IS MINE, AND SOUND WISDOM: I AM UNDERSTANDING; I HAVE STRENGTH.
# 15  BY ME KINGS REIGN, AND PRINCES DECREE JUSTICE.
# 16  BY ME PRINCES RULE, AND NOBLES, EVEN ALL THE JUDGES OF THE EARTH.
# 17  I LOVE THEM THAT LOVE ME; AND THOSE THAT SEEK ME EARLY SHALL FIND ME.
# 18  RICHES AND HONOUR ARE WITH ME; YEA, DURABLE RICHES AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.
# 19  MY FRUIT IS BETTER THAN GOLD, YEA, THAN FINE GOLD; AND MY REVENUE THAN CHOICE SILVER.
# 20  I LEAD IN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, IN THE MIDST OF THE PATHS OF JUDGMENT:
# 21  THAT I MAY CAUSE THOSE THAT LOVE ME TO INHERIT SUBSTANCE; AND I WILL FILL THEIR TREASURES.
# 22  THE LORD POSSESSED ME IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS WAY, BEFORE HIS WORKS OF OLD.
# 23  I WAS SET UP FROM EVERLASTING, FROM THE BEGINNING, OR EVER THE EARTH WAS.
# 24  WHEN THERE WERE NO DEPTHS, I WAS BROUGHT FORTH; WHEN THERE WERE NO FOUNTAINS ABOUNDING WITH WATER.
# 25  BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE SETTLED, BEFORE THE HILLS WAS I BROUGHT FORTH:
# 26  WHILE AS YET HE HAD NOT MADE THE EARTH, NOR THE FIELDS, NOR THE HIGHEST PART OF THE DUST OF THE WORLD.
# 27  WHEN HE PREPARED THE HEAVENS, I WAS THERE: WHEN HE SET A COMPASS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEPTH:
# 28  WHEN HE ESTABLISHED THE CLOUDS ABOVE: WHEN HE STRENGTHENED THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP:
# 29  WHEN HE GAVE TO THE SEA HIS DECREE, THAT THE WATERS SHOULD NOT PASS HIS COMMANDMENT: WHEN HE APPOINTED THE FOUNDATIONS OF
 THE EARTH:
# 30  THEN I WAS BY HIM, AS ONE BROUGHT UP WITH HIM: AND I WAS DAILY HIS DELIGHT, REJOICING ALWAYS BEFORE HIM;
# 31  REJOICING IN THE HABITABLE PART OF HIS EARTH; AND MY DELIGHTS WERE WITH THE SONS OF MEN.
# 32  NOW THEREFORE HEARKEN UNTO ME, O YE CHILDREN: FOR BLESSED ARE THEY THAT KEEP MY WAYS.
# 33  HEAR INSTRUCTION, AND BE WISE, AND REFUSE IT NOT.
# 34  BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT HEARETH ME, WATCHING DAILY AT MY GATES, WAITING AT THE POSTS OF MY DOORS.
# 35  FOR WHOSO FINDETH ME FINDETH LIFE, AND SHALL OBTAIN FAVOUR OF THE LORD.
# 36  BUT HE THAT SINNETH AGAINST ME WRONGETH HIS OWN SOUL: ALL THEY THAT HATE ME LOVE DEATH.
---- CHAPTER  9 
# 1 WISDOM HATH BUILDED HER HOUSE, SHE HATH HEWN OUT HER SEVEN PILLARS:
# 2  SHE HATH KILLED HER BEASTS; SHE HATH MINGLED HER WINE; SHE HATH ALSO FURNISHED HER TABLE.
# 3  SHE HATH SENT FORTH HER MAIDENS: SHE CRIETH UPON THE HIGHEST PLACES OF THE CITY,
# 4  WHOSO IS SIMPLE, LET HIM TURN IN HITHER: AS FOR HIM THAT WANTETH UNDERSTANDING, SHE SAITH TO HIM,
# 5  COME, EAT OF MY BREAD, AND DRINK OF THE WINE WHICH I HAVE MINGLED.
# 6  FORSAKE THE FOOLISH, AND LIVE; AND GO IN THE WAY OF UNDERSTANDING.
# 7  HE THAT REPROVETH A SCORNER GETTETH TO HIMSELF SHAME: AND HE THAT REBUKETH A WICKED MAN GETTETH HIMSELF A BLOT.
# 8  REPROVE NOT A SCORNER, LEST HE HATE THEE: REBUKE A WISE MAN, AND HE WILL LOVE THEE. IT
# 9  GIVE INSTRUCTION TO A WISE MAN, AND HE WILL BE YET WISER: TEACH A JUST MAN, AND HE WILL INCREASE IN LEARNING.
# 10  THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM: AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY IS UNDERSTANDING.
# 11  FOR BY ME THY DAYS SHALL BE MULTIPLIED, AND THE YEARS OF THY LIFE SHALL BE INCREASED.
# 12  IF THOU BE WISE, THOU SHALT BE WISE FOR THYSELF: BUT IF THOU SCORNEST, THOU ALONE SHALT BEAR IT.
# 13  A FOOLISH WOMAN IS CLAMOROUS: SHE IS SIMPLE, AND KNOWETH NOTHING.
# 14  FOR SHE SITTETH AT THE DOOR OF HER HOUSE, ON A SEAT IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY,
# 15  TO CALL PASSENGERS WHO GO RIGHT ON THEIR WAYS:
# 16  WHOSO IS SIMPLE, LET HIM TURN IN HITHER: AND AS FOR HIM THAT WANTETH UNDERSTANDING, SHE SAITH TO HIM,
# 17  STOLEN WATERS ARE SWEET, AND BREAD EATEN IN SECRET IS PLEASANT.
# 18  BUT HE KNOWETH NOT THAT THE DEAD ARE THERE; AND THAT HER GUESTS ARE IN THE DEPTHS OF HELL.
---- CHAPTER  10 
# 1 THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON. A WISE SON MAKETH A GLAD FATHER: BUT A FOOLISH SON IS THE HEAVINESS OF HIS MOTHER.
# 2  TREASURES OF WICKEDNESS PROFIT NOTHING: BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS DELIVERETH FROM DEATH.
# 3  THE LORD WILL NOT SUFFER THE SOUL OF THE RIGHTEOUS TO FAMISH: BUT HE CASTETH AWAY THE SUBSTANCE OF THE WICKED.
# 4  HE BECOMETH POOR THAT DEALETH WITH A SLACK HAND: BUT THE HAND OF THE DILIGENT MAKETH RICH.
# 5  HE THAT GATHERETH IN SUMMER IS A WISE SON: BUT HE THAT SLEEPETH IN HARVEST IS A SON THAT CAUSETH SHAME.
# 6  BLESSINGS ARE UPON THE HEAD OF THE JUST: BUT VIOLENCE COVERETH THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED.
# 7  THE MEMORY OF THE JUST IS BLESSED: BUT THE NAME OF THE WICKED SHALL ROT.
# 8  THE WISE IN HEART WILL RECEIVE COMMANDMENTS: BUT A PRATING FOOL SHALL FALL.
# 9  HE THAT WALKETH UPRIGHTLY WALKETH SURELY: BUT HE THAT PERVERTETH HIS WAYS SHALL BE KNOWN.
# 10  HE THAT WINKETH WITH THE EYE CAUSETH SORROW: BUT A PRATING FOOL SHALL FALL.
# 11  THE MOUTH OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN IS A WELL OF LIFE: BUT VIOLENCE COVERETH THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED.
# 12  HATRED STIRRETH UP STRIFES: BUT LOVE COVERETH ALL SINS.
# 13  IN THE LIPS OF HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING WISDOM IS FOUND: BUT A ROD IS FOR THE BACK OF HIM THAT IS VOID OF UNDERSTANDING.
# 14  WISE MEN LAY UP KNOWLEDGE: BUT THE MOUTH OF THE FOOLISH IS NEAR DESTRUCTION.
# 15  THE RICH MANS WEALTH IS HIS STRONG CITY: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE POOR IS THEIR POVERTY.
# 16  THE LABOUR OF THE RIGHTEOUS TENDETH TO LIFE: THE FRUIT OF THE WICKED TO SIN.
# 17  HE IS IN THE WAY OF LIFE THAT KEEPETH INSTRUCTION: BUT HE THAT REFUSETH REPROOF ERRETH.
# 18  HE THAT HIDETH HATRED WITH LYING LIPS, AND HE THAT UTTERETH A SLANDER, IS A FOOL.
# 19  IN THE MULTITUDE OF WORDS THERE WANTETH NOT SIN: BUT HE THAT REFRAINETH HIS LIPS IS WISE.
# 20  THE TONGUE OF THE JUST IS AS CHOICE SILVER: THE HEART OF THE WICKED IS LITTLE WORTH.
# 21  THE LIPS OF THE RIGHTEOUS FEED MANY: BUT FOOLS DIE FOR WANT OF WISDOM.
# 22  THE BLESSING OF THE LORD, IT MAKETH RICH, AND HE ADDETH NO SORROW WITH IT.
# 23  IT IS AS SPORT TO A FOOL TO DO MISCHIEF: BUT A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING HATH WISDOM.
# 24  THE FEAR OF THE WICKED, IT SHALL COME UPON HIM: BUT THE DESIRE OF THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE GRANTED.
# 25  AS THE WHIRLWIND PASSETH, SO IS THE WICKED NO MORE: BUT THE RIGHTEOUS IS AN EVERLASTING FOUNDATION.
# 26  AS VINEGAR TO THE TEETH, AND AS SMOKE TO THE EYES, SO IS THE SLUGGARD TO THEM THAT SEND HIM.
# 27  THE FEAR OF THE LORD PROLONGETH DAYS: BUT THE YEARS OF THE WICKED SHALL BE SHORTENED.
# 28  THE HOPE OF THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE GLADNESS: BUT THE EXPECTATION OF THE WICKED SHALL PERISH.
# 29  THE WAY OF THE LORD IS STRENGTH TO THE UPRIGHT: BUT DESTRUCTION SHALL BE TO THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY.
# 30  THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL NEVER BE REMOVED: BUT THE WICKED SHALL NOT INHABIT THE EARTH.
# 31  THE MOUTH OF THE JUST BRINGETH FORTH WISDOM: BUT THE FROWARD TONGUE SHALL BE CUT OUT.
# 32  THE LIPS OF THE RIGHTEOUS KNOW WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE: BUT THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED SPEAKETH FROWARDNESS.
---- CHAPTER  11 
# 1 A FALSE BALANCE IS ABOMINATION TO THE LORD: BUT A JUST WEIGHT IS HIS DELIGHT.
# 2  WHEN PRIDE COMETH, THEN COMETH SHAME: BUT WITH THE LOWLY IS WISDOM.
# 3  THE INTEGRITY OF THE UPRIGHT SHALL GUIDE THEM: BUT THE PERVERSENESS OF TRANSGRESSORS SHALL DESTROY THEM.
# 4  RICHES PROFIT NOT IN THE DAY OF WRATH: BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS DELIVERETH FROM DEATH.
# 5  THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE PERFECT SHALL DIRECT HIS WAY: BUT THE WICKED SHALL FALL BY HIS OWN WICKEDNESS.
# 6  THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE UPRIGHT SHALL DELIVER THEM: BUT TRANSGRESSORS SHALL BE TAKEN IN THEIR OWN NAUGHTINESS.
# 7  WHEN A WICKED MAN DIETH, HIS EXPECTATION SHALL PERISH: AND THE HOPE OF UNJUST MEN PERISHETH.
# 8  THE RIGHTEOUS IS DELIVERED OUT OF TROUBLE, AND THE WICKED COMETH IN HIS STEAD.
# 9  AN HYPOCRITE WITH HIS MOUTH DESTROYETH HIS NEIGHBOUR: BUT THROUGH KNOWLEDGE SHALL THE JUST BE DELIVERED.
# 10  WHEN IT GOETH WELL WITH THE RIGHTEOUS, THE CITY REJOICETH: AND WHEN THE WICKED PERISH, THERE IS SHOUTING.
# 11  BY THE BLESSING OF THE UPRIGHT THE CITY IS EXALTED: BUT IT IS OVERTHROWN BY THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED.
# 12  HE THAT IS VOID OF WISDOM DESPISETH HIS NEIGHBOUR: BUT A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING HOLDETH HIS PEACE.
# 13  A TALEBEARER REVEALETH SECRETS: BUT HE THAT IS OF A FAITHFUL SPIRIT CONCEALETH THE MATTER.
# 14  WHERE NO COUNSEL IS, THE PEOPLE FALL: BUT IN THE MULTITUDE OF COUNSELLORS THERE IS SAFETY.
# 15  HE THAT IS SURETY FOR A STRANGER SHALL SMART FOR IT: AND HE THAT HATETH SURETISHIP IS SURE.
# 16  A GRACIOUS WOMAN RETAINETH HONOUR: AND STRONG MEN RETAIN RICHES.
# 17  THE MERCIFUL MAN DOETH GOOD TO HIS OWN SOUL: BUT HE THAT IS CRUEL TROUBLETH HIS OWN FLESH.
# 18  THE WICKED WORKETH A DECEITFUL WORK: BUT TO HIM THAT SOWETH RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE A SURE REWARD.
# 19  AS RIGHTEOUSNESS TENDETH TO LIFE: SO HE THAT PURSUETH EVIL PURSUETH IT TO HIS OWN DEATH.
# 20  THEY THAT ARE OF A FROWARD HEART ARE ABOMINATION TO THE LORD: BUT SUCH AS ARE UPRIGHT IN THEIR WAY ARE HIS DELIGHT.
# 21  THOUGH HAND JOIN IN HAND, THE WICKED SHALL NOT BE UNPUNISHED: BUT THE SEED OF THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE DELIVERED.
# 22  AS A JEWEL OF GOLD IN A SWINES SNOUT, SO IS A FAIR WOMAN WHICH IS WITHOUT DISCRETION.
# 23  THE DESIRE OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS ONLY GOOD: BUT THE EXPECTATION OF THE WICKED IS WRATH.
# 24  THERE IS THAT SCATTERETH, AND YET INCREASETH; AND THERE IS THAT WITHHOLDETH MORE THAN IS MEET, BUT IT TENDETH TO POVERTY.
# 25  THE LIBERAL SOUL SHALL BE MADE FAT: AND HE THAT WATERETH SHALL BE WATERED ALSO HIMSELF.
# 26  HE THAT WITHHOLDETH CORN, THE PEOPLE SHALL CURSE HIM: BUT BLESSING SHALL BE UPON THE HEAD OF HIM THAT SELLETH IT.
# 27  HE THAT DILIGENTLY SEEKETH GOOD PROCURETH FAVOUR: BUT HE THAT SEEKETH MISCHIEF, IT SHALL COME UNTO HIM.
# 28  HE THAT TRUSTETH IN HIS RICHES SHALL FALL; BUT THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL FLOURISH AS A BRANCH.
# 29  HE THAT TROUBLETH HIS OWN HOUSE SHALL INHERIT THE WIND: AND THE FOOL SHALL BE SERVANT TO THE WISE OF HEART.
# 30  THE FRUIT OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS A TREE OF LIFE; AND HE THAT WINNETH SOULS IS WISE.
# 31  BEHOLD, THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED IN THE EARTH: MUCH MORE THE WICKED AND THE SINNER.
---- CHAPTER  12 
# 1 WHOSO LOVETH INSTRUCTION LOVETH KNOWLEDGE: BUT HE THAT HATETH REPROOF IS BRUTISH.
# 2  A GOOD MAN OBTAINETH FAVOUR OF THE LORD: BUT A MAN OF WICKED DEVICES WILL HE CONDEMN.
# 3  A MAN SHALL NOT BE ESTABLISHED BY WICKEDNESS: BUT THE ROOT OF THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT BE MOVED.
# 4  A VIRTUOUS WOMAN IS A CROWN TO HER HUSBAND: BUT SHE THAT MAKETH ASHAMED IS AS ROTTENNESS IN HIS BONES.
# 5  THE THOUGHTS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE RIGHT: BUT THE COUNSELS OF THE WICKED ARE DECEIT.
# 6  THE WORDS OF THE WICKED ARE TO LIE IN WAIT FOR BLOOD: BUT THE MOUTH OF THE UPRIGHT SHALL DELIVER THEM.
# 7  THE WICKED ARE OVERTHROWN, AND ARE NOT: BUT THE HOUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL STAND.
# 8  A MAN SHALL BE COMMENDED ACCORDING TO HIS WISDOM: BUT HE THAT IS OF A PERVERSE HEART SHALL BE DESPISED.
# 9  HE THAT IS DESPISED, AND HATH A SERVANT, IS BETTER THAN HE THAT HONOURETH HIMSELF, AND LACKETH BREAD.
# 10  A RIGHTEOUS MAN REGARDETH THE LIFE OF HIS BEAST: BUT THE TENDER MERCIES OF THE WICKED ARE CRUEL.
# 11  HE THAT TILLETH HIS LAND SHALL BE SATISFIED WITH BREAD: BUT HE THAT FOLLOWETH VAIN PERSONS IS VOID OF UNDERSTANDING.
# 12  THE WICKED DESIRETH THE NET OF EVIL MEN: BUT THE ROOT OF THE RIGHTEOUS YIELDETH FRUIT.
# 13  THE WICKED IS SNARED BY THE TRANSGRESSION OF HIS LIPS: BUT THE JUST SHALL COME OUT OF TROUBLE.
# 14  A MAN SHALL BE SATISFIED WITH GOOD BY THE FRUIT OF HIS MOUTH: AND THE RECOMPENCE OF A MANS HANDS SHALL BE RENDERED UNTO HIM
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# 15  THE WAY OF A FOOL IS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES: BUT HE THAT HEARKENETH UNTO COUNSEL IS WISE.
# 16  A FOOLS WRATH IS PRESENTLY KNOWN: BUT A PRUDENT MAN COVERETH SHAME.
# 17  HE THAT SPEAKETH TRUTH SHEWETH FORTH RIGHTEOUSNESS: BUT A FALSE WITNESS DECEIT.
# 18  THERE IS THAT SPEAKETH LIKE THE PIERCINGS OF A SWORD: BUT THE TONGUE OF THE WISE IS HEALTH.
# 19  THE LIP OF TRUTH SHALL BE ESTABLISHED FOR EVER: BUT A LYING TONGUE IS BUT FOR A MOMENT.
# 20  DECEIT IS IN THE HEART OF THEM THAT IMAGINE EVIL: BUT TO THE COUNSELLORS OF PEACE IS JOY.
# 21  THERE SHALL NO EVIL HAPPEN TO THE JUST: BUT THE WICKED SHALL BE FILLED WITH MISCHIEF.
# 22  LYING LIPS ARE ABOMINATION TO THE LORD: BUT THEY THAT DEAL TRULY ARE HIS DELIGHT.
# 23  A PRUDENT MAN CONCEALETH KNOWLEDGE: BUT THE HEART OF FOOLS PROCLAIMETH FOOLISHNESS.
# 24  THE HAND OF THE DILIGENT SHALL BEAR RULE: BUT THE SLOTHFUL SHALL BE UNDER TRIBUTE.
# 25  HEAVINESS IN THE HEART OF MAN MAKETH IT STOOP: BUT A GOOD WORD MAKETH IT GLAD.
# 26  THE RIGHTEOUS IS MORE EXCELLENT THAN HIS NEIGHBOUR: BUT THE WAY OF THE WICKED SEDUCETH THEM.
# 27  THE SLOTHFUL MAN ROASTETH NOT THAT WHICH HE TOOK IN HUNTING: BUT THE SUBSTANCE OF A DILIGENT MAN IS PRECIOUS.
# 28  IN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS LIFE: AND IN THE PATHWAY THEREOF THERE IS NO DEATH.
---- CHAPTER  13 
# 1 A WISE SON HEARETH HIS FATHERS INSTRUCTION: BUT A SCORNER HEARETH NOT REBUKE.
# 2  A MAN SHALL EAT GOOD BY THE FRUIT OF HIS MOUTH: BUT THE SOUL OF THE TRANSGRESSORS SHALL EAT VIOLENCE.
# 3  HE THAT KEEPETH HIS MOUTH KEEPETH HIS LIFE: BUT HE THAT OPENETH WIDE HIS LIPS SHALL HAVE DESTRUCTION.
# 4  THE SOUL OF THE SLUGGARD DESIRETH, AND HATH NOTHING: BUT THE SOUL OF THE DILIGENT SHALL BE MADE FAT.
# 5  A RIGHTEOUS MAN HATETH LYING: BUT A WICKED MAN IS LOATHSOME, AND COMETH TO SHAME.
# 6  RIGHTEOUSNESS KEEPETH HIM THAT IS UPRIGHT IN THE WAY: BUT WICKEDNESS OVERTHROWETH THE SINNER.
# 7  THERE IS THAT MAKETH HIMSELF RICH, YET HATH NOTHING: THERE IS THAT MAKETH HIMSELF POOR, YET HATH GREAT RICHES.
# 8  THE RANSOM OF A MANS LIFE ARE HIS RICHES: BUT THE POOR HEARETH NOT REBUKE.
# 9  THE LIGHT OF THE RIGHTEOUS REJOICETH: BUT THE LAMP OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT.
# 10  ONLY BY PRIDE COMETH CONTENTION: BUT WITH THE WELL ADVISED IS WISDOM.
# 11  WEALTH GOTTEN BY VANITY SHALL BE DIMINISHED: BUT HE THAT GATHERETH BY LABOUR SHALL INCREASE.
# 12  HOPE DEFERRED MAKETH THE HEART SICK: BUT WHEN THE DESIRE COMETH, IT IS A TREE OF LIFE.
# 13  WHOSO DESPISETH THE WORD SHALL BE DESTROYED: BUT HE THAT FEARETH THE COMMANDMENT SHALL BE REWARDED.
# 14  THE LAW OF THE WISE IS A FOUNTAIN OF LIFE, TO DEPART FROM THE SNARES OF DEATH.
# 15  GOOD UNDERSTANDING GIVETH FAVOUR: BUT THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSORS IS HARD.
# 16  EVERY PRUDENT MAN DEALETH WITH KNOWLEDGE: BUT A FOOL LAYETH OPEN HIS FOLLY.
# 17  A WICKED MESSENGER FALLETH INTO MISCHIEF: BUT A FAITHFUL AMBASSADOR IS HEALTH.
# 18  POVERTY AND SHAME SHALL BE TO HIM THAT REFUSETH INSTRUCTION: BUT HE THAT REGARDETH REPROOF SHALL BE HONOURED.
# 19  THE DESIRE ACCOMPLISHED IS SWEET TO THE SOUL: BUT IT IS ABOMINATION TO FOOLS TO DEPART FROM EVIL.
# 20  HE THAT WALKETH WITH WISE MEN SHALL BE WISE: BUT A COMPANION OF FOOLS SHALL BE DESTROYED.
# 21  EVIL PURSUETH SINNERS: BUT TO THE RIGHTEOUS GOOD SHALL BE REPAYED.
# 22  A GOOD MAN LEAVETH AN INHERITANCE TO HIS CHILDRENS CHILDREN: AND THE WEALTH OF THE SINNER IS LAID UP FOR THE JUST.
# 23  MUCH FOOD IS IN THE TILLAGE OF THE POOR: BUT THERE IS THAT IS DESTROYED FOR WANT OF JUDGMENT.
# 24  HE THAT SPARETH HIS ROD HATETH HIS SON: BUT HE THAT LOVETH HIM CHASTENETH HIM BETIMES.
# 25  THE RIGHTEOUS EATETH TO THE SATISFYING OF HIS SOUL: BUT THE BELLY OF THE WICKED SHALL WANT.
---- CHAPTER  14 
# 1 EVERY WISE WOMAN BUILDETH HER HOUSE: BUT THE FOOLISH PLUCKETH IT DOWN WITH HER HANDS.
# 2  HE THAT WALKETH IN HIS UPRIGHTNESS FEARETH THE LORD: BUT HE THAT IS PERVERSE IN HIS WAYS DESPISETH HIM.
# 3  IN THE MOUTH OF THE FOOLISH IS A ROD OF PRIDE: BUT THE LIPS OF THE WISE SHALL PRESERVE THEM.
# 4  WHERE NO OXEN ARE, THE CRIB IS CLEAN: BUT MUCH INCREASE IS BY THE STRENGTH OF THE OX.
# 5  A FAITHFUL WITNESS WILL NOT LIE: BUT A FALSE WITNESS WILL UTTER LIES.
# 6  A SCORNER SEEKETH WISDOM, AND FINDETH IT NOT: BUT KNOWLEDGE IS EASY UNTO HIM THAT UNDERSTANDETH.
# 7  GO FROM THE PRESENCE OF A FOOLISH MAN, WHEN THOU PERCEIVEST NOT IN HIM THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE.
# 8  THE WISDOM OF THE PRUDENT IS TO UNDERSTAND HIS WAY: BUT THE FOLLY OF FOOLS IS DECEIT.
# 9  FOOLS MAKE A MOCK AT SIN: BUT AMONG THE RIGHTEOUS THERE IS FAVOUR.
# 10  THE HEART KNOWETH HIS OWN BITTERNESS; AND A STRANGER DOTH NOT INTERMEDDLE WITH HIS JOY.
# 11  THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED SHALL BE OVERTHROWN: BUT THE TABERNACLE OF THE UPRIGHT SHALL FLOURISH.
# 12  THERE IS A WAY WHICH SEEMETH RIGHT UNTO A MAN, BUT THE END THEREOF ARE THE WAYS OF DEATH.
# 13  EVEN IN LAUGHTER THE HEART IS SORROWFUL; AND THE END OF THAT MIRTH IS HEAVINESS.
# 14  THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART SHALL BE FILLED WITH HIS OWN WAYS: AND A GOOD MAN SHALL BE SATISFIED FROM HIMSELF.
# 15  THE SIMPLE BELIEVETH EVERY WORD: BUT THE PRUDENT MAN LOOKETH WELL TO HIS GOING. IT
# 16  A WISE MAN FEARETH, AND DEPARTETH FROM EVIL: BUT THE FOOL RAGETH, AND IS CONFIDENT.
# 17  HE THAT IS SOON ANGRY DEALETH FOOLISHLY: AND A MAN OF WICKED DEVICES IS HATED.
# 18  THE SIMPLE INHERIT FOLLY: BUT THE PRUDENT ARE CROWNED WITH KNOWLEDGE.
# 19  THE EVIL BOW BEFORE THE GOOD; AND THE WICKED AT THE GATES OF THE RIGHTEOUS.
# 20  THE POOR IS HATED EVEN OF HIS OWN NEIGHBOUR: BUT THE RICH HATH MANY FRIENDS.
# 21  HE THAT DESPISETH HIS NEIGHBOUR SINNETH: BUT HE THAT HATH MERCY ON THE POOR, HAPPY IS HE.
# 22  DO THEY NOT ERR THAT DEVISE EVIL? BUT MERCY AND TRUTH SHALL BE TO THEM THAT DEVISE GOOD.
# 23  IN ALL LABOUR THERE IS PROFIT: BUT THE TALK OF THE LIPS TENDETH ONLY TO PENURY.
# 24  THE CROWN OF THE WISE IS THEIR RICHES: BUT THE FOOLISHNESS OF FOOLS IS FOLLY.
# 25  A TRUE WITNESS DELIVERETH SOULS: BUT A DECEITFUL WITNESS SPEAKETH LIES.
# 26  IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS STRONG CONFIDENCE: AND HIS CHILDREN SHALL HAVE A PLACE OF REFUGE.
# 27  THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS A FOUNTAIN OF LIFE, TO DEPART FROM THE SNARES OF DEATH.
# 28  IN THE MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE IS THE KINGS HONOUR: BUT IN THE WANT OF PEOPLE IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PRINCE.
# 29  HE THAT IS SLOW TO WRATH IS OF GREAT UNDERSTANDING: BUT HE THAT IS HASTY OF SPIRIT EXALTETH FOLLY.
# 30  A SOUND HEART IS THE LIFE OF THE FLESH: BUT ENVY THE ROTTENNESS OF THE BONES.
# 31  HE THAT OPPRESSETH THE POOR REPROACHETH HIS MAKER: BUT HE THAT HONOURETH HIM HATH MERCY ON THE POOR.
# 32  THE WICKED IS DRIVEN AWAY IN HIS WICKEDNESS: BUT THE RIGHTEOUS HATH HOPE IN HIS DEATH.
# 33  WISDOM RESTETH IN THE HEART OF HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING: BUT THAT WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF FOOLS IS MADE KNOWN.
# 34  RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTETH A NATION: BUT SIN IS A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE.
# 35  THE KINGS FAVOUR IS TOWARD A WISE SERVANT: BUT HIS WRATH IS AGAINST HIM THAT CAUSETH SHAME.
---- CHAPTER  15 
# 1 A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH: BUT GRIEVOUS WORDS STIR UP ANGER.
# 2  THE TONGUE OF THE WISE USETH KNOWLEDGE ARIGHT: BUT THE MOUTH OF FOOLS POURETH OUT FOOLISHNESS.
# 3  THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE IN EVERY PLACE, BEHOLDING THE EVIL AND THE GOOD.
# 4  A WHOLESOME TONGUE IS A TREE OF LIFE: BUT PERVERSENESS THEREIN IS A BREACH IN THE SPIRIT.
# 5  A FOOL DESPISETH HIS FATHERS INSTRUCTION: BUT HE THAT REGARDETH REPROOF IS PRUDENT.
# 6  IN THE HOUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS MUCH TREASURE: BUT IN THE REVENUES OF THE WICKED IS TROUBLE.
# 7  THE LIPS OF THE WISE DISPERSE KNOWLEDGE: BUT THE HEART OF THE FOOLISH DOETH NOT SO.
# 8  THE SACRIFICE OF THE WICKED IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD: BUT THE PRAYER OF THE UPRIGHT IS HIS DELIGHT.
# 9  THE WAY OF THE WICKED IS AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD: BUT HE LOVETH HIM THAT FOLLOWETH AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS.
# 10  CORRECTION IS GRIEVOUS UNTO HIM THAT FORSAKETH THE WAY: AND HE THAT HATETH REPROOF SHALL DIE.
# 11  HELL AND DESTRUCTION ARE BEFORE THE LORD: HOW MUCH MORE THEN THE HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN OF MEN?
# 12  A SCORNER LOVETH NOT ONE THAT REPROVETH HIM: NEITHER WILL HE GO UNTO THE WISE.
# 13  A MERRY HEART MAKETH A CHEERFUL COUNTENANCE: BUT BY SORROW OF THE HEART THE SPIRIT IS BROKEN.
# 14  THE HEART OF HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING SEEKETH KNOWLEDGE: BUT THE MOUTH OF FOOLS FEEDETH ON FOOLISHNESS.
# 15  ALL THE DAYS OF THE AFFLICTED ARE EVIL: BUT HE THAT IS OF A MERRY HEART HATH A CONTINUAL FEAST.
# 16  BETTER IS LITTLE WITH THE FEAR OF THE LORD THAN GREAT TREASURE AND TROUBLE THEREWITH.
# 17  BETTER IS A DINNER OF HERBS WHERE LOVE IS, THAN A STALLED OX AND HATRED THEREWITH.
# 18  A WRATHFUL MAN STIRRETH UP STRIFE: BUT HE THAT IS SLOW TO ANGER APPEASETH STRIFE.
# 19  THE WAY OF THE SLOTHFUL MAN IS AS AN HEDGE OF THORNS: BUT THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS MADE PLAIN.
# 20  A WISE SON MAKETH A GLAD FATHER: BUT A FOOLISH MAN DESPISETH HIS MOTHER.
# 21  FOLLY IS JOY TO HIM THAT IS DESTITUTE OF WISDOM: BUT A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING WALKETH UPRIGHTLY.
# 22  WITHOUT COUNSEL PURPOSES ARE DISAPPOINTED: BUT IN THE MULTITUDE OF COUNSELLORS THEY ARE ESTABLISHED.
# 23  A MAN HATH JOY BY THE ANSWER OF HIS MOUTH: AND A WORD SPOKEN IN DUE SEASON, HOW GOOD IS IT!
# 24  THE WAY OF LIFE IS ABOVE TO THE WISE, THAT HE MAY DEPART FROM HELL BENEATH.
# 25  THE LORD WILL DESTROY THE HOUSE OF THE PROUD: BUT HE WILL ESTABLISH THE BORDER OF THE WIDOW.
# 26  THE THOUGHTS OF THE WICKED ARE AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD: BUT THE WORDS OF THE PURE ARE PLEASANT WORDS.
# 27  HE THAT IS GREEDY OF GAIN TROUBLETH HIS OWN HOUSE; BUT HE THAT HATETH GIFTS SHALL LIVE.
# 28  THE HEART OF THE RIGHTEOUS STUDIETH TO ANSWER: BUT THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED POURETH OUT EVIL THINGS.
# 29  THE LORD IS FAR FROM THE WICKED: BUT HE HEARETH THE PRAYER OF THE RIGHTEOUS.
# 30  THE LIGHT OF THE EYES REJOICETH THE HEART: AND A GOOD REPORT MAKETH THE BONES FAT.
# 31  THE EAR THAT HEARETH THE REPROOF OF LIFE ABIDETH AMONG THE WISE.
# 32  HE THAT REFUSETH INSTRUCTION DESPISETH HIS OWN SOUL: BUT HE THAT HEARETH REPROOF GETTETH UNDERSTANDING.
# 33  THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE INSTRUCTION OF WISDOM; AND BEFORE HONOUR IS HUMILITY.
---- CHAPTER  16 
# 1 THE PREPARATIONS OF THE HEART IN MAN, AND THE ANSWER OF THE TONGUE, IS FROM THE LORD.
# 2  ALL THE WAYS OF A MAN ARE CLEAN IN HIS OWN EYES; BUT THE LORD WEIGHETH THE SPIRITS.
# 3  COMMIT THY WORKS UNTO THE LORD, AND THY THOUGHTS SHALL BE ESTABLISHED.
# 4  THE LORD HATH MADE ALL THINGS FOR HIMSELF: YEA, EVEN THE WICKED FOR THE DAY OF EVIL.
# 5  EVERY ONE THAT IS PROUD IN HEART IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD: THOUGH HAND JOIN IN HAND, HE SHALL NOT BE UNPUNISHED.
# 6  BY MERCY AND TRUTH INIQUITY IS PURGED: AND BY THE FEAR OF THE LORD MEN DEPART FROM EVIL.
# 7  WHEN A MANS WAYS PLEASE THE LORD, HE MAKETH EVEN HIS ENEMIES TO BE AT PEACE WITH HIM.
# 8  BETTER IS A LITTLE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS THAN GREAT REVENUES WITHOUT RIGHT.
# 9  A MANS HEART DEVISETH HIS WAY: BUT THE LORD DIRECTETH HIS STEPS.
# 10  A DIVINE SENTENCE IS IN THE LIPS OF THE KING: HIS MOUTH TRANSGRESSETH NOT IN JUDGMENT.
# 11  A JUST WEIGHT AND BALANCE ARE THE LORDS: ALL THE WEIGHTS OF THE BAG ARE HIS WORK.
# 12  IT IS AN ABOMINATION TO KINGS TO COMMIT WICKEDNESS: FOR THE THRONE IS ESTABLISHED BY RIGHTEOUSNESS.
# 13  RIGHTEOUS LIPS ARE THE DELIGHT OF KINGS; AND THEY LOVE HIM THAT SPEAKETH RIGHT.
# 14  THE WRATH OF A KING IS AS MESSENGERS OF DEATH: BUT A WISE MAN WILL PACIFY IT.
# 15  IN THE LIGHT OF THE KINGS COUNTENANCE IS LIFE; AND HIS FAVOUR IS AS A CLOUD OF THE LATTER RAIN.
# 16  HOW MUCH BETTER IS IT TO GET WISDOM THAN GOLD! AND TO GET UNDERSTANDING RATHER TO BE CHOSEN THAN SILVER!
# 17  THE HIGHWAY OF THE UPRIGHT IS TO DEPART FROM EVIL: HE THAT KEEPETH HIS WAY PRESERVETH HIS SOUL.
# 18  PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTRUCTION, AND AN HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE A FALL.
# 19  BETTER IT IS TO BE OF AN HUMBLE SPIRIT WITH THE LOWLY, THAN TO DIVIDE THE SPOIL WITH THE PROUD.
# 20  HE THAT HANDLETH A MATTER WISELY SHALL FIND GOOD: AND WHOSO TRUSTETH IN THE LORD, HAPPY IS HE.
# 21  THE WISE IN HEART SHALL BE CALLED PRUDENT: AND THE SWEETNESS OF THE LIPS INCREASETH LEARNING.
# 22  UNDERSTANDING IS A WELLSPRING OF LIFE UNTO HIM THAT HATH IT: BUT THE INSTRUCTION OF FOOLS IS FOLLY.
# 23  THE HEART OF THE WISE TEACHETH HIS MOUTH, AND ADDETH LEARNING TO HIS LIPS.
# 24  PLEASANT WORDS ARE AS AN HONEYCOMB, SWEET TO THE SOUL, AND HEALTH TO THE BONES.
# 25  THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEMETH RIGHT UNTO A MAN, BUT THE END THEREOF ARE THE WAYS OF DEATH.
# 26  HE THAT LABOURETH LABOURETH FOR HIMSELF; FOR HIS MOUTH CRAVETH IT OF HIM.
# 27  AN UNGODLY MAN DIGGETH UP EVIL: AND IN HIS LIPS THERE IS AS A BURNING FIRE.
# 28  A FROWARD MAN SOWETH STRIFE: AND A WHISPERER SEPARATETH CHIEF FRIENDS.
# 29  A VIOLENT MAN ENTICETH HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND LEADETH HIM INTO THE WAY THAT IS NOT GOOD.
# 30  HE SHUTTETH HIS EYES TO DEVISE FROWARD THINGS: MOVING HIS LIPS HE BRINGETH EVIL TO PASS.
# 31  THE HOARY HEAD IS A CROWN OF GLORY, IF IT BE FOUND IN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
# 32  HE THAT IS SLOW TO ANGER IS BETTER THAN THE MIGHTY; AND HE THAT RULETH HIS SPIRIT THAN HE THAT TAKETH A CITY.
# 33  THE LOT IS CAST INTO THE LAP; BUT THE WHOLE DISPOSING THEREOF IS OF THE LORD.
---- CHAPTER  17 
# 1 BETTER IS A DRY MORSEL, AND QUIETNESS THEREWITH, THAN AN HOUSE FULL OF SACRIFICES WITH STRIFE.
# 2  A WISE SERVANT SHALL HAVE RULE OVER A SON THAT CAUSETH SHAME, AND SHALL HAVE PART OF THE INHERITANCE AMONG THE BRETHREN.
# 3  THE FINING POT IS FOR SILVER, AND THE FURNACE FOR GOLD: BUT THE LORD TRIETH THE HEARTS.
# 4  A WICKED DOER GIVETH HEED TO FALSE LIPS; AND A LIAR GIVETH EAR TO A NAUGHTY TONGUE.
# 5  WHOSO MOCKETH THE POOR REPROACHETH HIS MAKER: AND HE THAT IS GLAD AT CALAMITIES SHALL NOT BE UNPUNISHED.
# 6  CHILDRENS CHILDREN ARE THE CROWN OF OLD MEN; AND THE GLORY OF CHILDREN ARE THEIR FATHERS.
# 7  EXCELLENT SPEECH BECOMETH NOT A FOOL: MUCH LESS DO LYING LIPS A PRINCE.
# 8  A GIFT IS AS A PRECIOUS STONE IN THE EYES OF HIM THAT HATH IT: WHITHERSOEVER IT TURNETH, IT PROSPERETH.
# 9  HE THAT COVERETH A TRANSGRESSION SEEKETH LOVE; BUT HE THAT REPEATETH A MATTER SEPARATETH VERY FRIENDS.
# 10  A REPROOF ENTERETH MORE INTO A WISE MAN THAN AN HUNDRED STRIPES INTO A FOOL.
# 11  AN EVIL MAN SEEKETH ONLY REBELLION: THEREFORE A CRUEL MESSENGER SHALL BE SENT AGAINST HIM.
# 12  LET A BEAR ROBBED OF HER WHELPS MEET A MAN, RATHER THAN A FOOL IN HIS FOLLY.
# 13  WHOSO REWARDETH EVIL FOR GOOD, EVIL SHALL NOT DEPART FROM HIS HOUSE.
# 14  THE BEGINNING OF STRIFE IS AS WHEN ONE LETTETH OUT WATER: THEREFORE LEAVE OFF CONTENTION, BEFORE IT BE MEDDLED WITH.
# 15  HE THAT JUSTIFIETH THE WICKED, AND HE THAT CONDEMNETH THE JUST, EVEN THEY BOTH ARE ABOMINATION TO THE LORD.
# 16  WHEREFORE IS THERE A PRICE IN THE HAND OF A FOOL TO GET WISDOM, SEEING HE HATH NO HEART TO IT?
# 17  A FRIEND LOVETH AT ALL TIMES, AND A BROTHER IS BORN FOR ADVERSITY.
# 18  A MAN VOID OF UNDERSTANDING STRIKETH HANDS, AND BECOMETH SURETY IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS FRIEND.
# 19  HE LOVETH TRANSGRESSION THAT LOVETH STRIFE: AND HE THAT EXALTETH HIS GATE SEEKETH DESTRUCTION.
# 20  HE THAT HATH A FROWARD HEART FINDETH NO GOOD: AND HE THAT HATH A PERVERSE TONGUE FALLETH INTO MISCHIEF.
# 21  HE THAT BEGETTETH A FOOL DOETH IT TO HIS SORROW: AND THE FATHER OF A FOOL HATH NO JOY.
# 22  A MERRY HEART DOETH GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE: BUT A BROKEN SPIRIT DRIETH THE BONES.
# 23  A WICKED MAN TAKETH A GIFT OUT OF THE BOSOM TO PERVERT THE WAYS OF JUDGMENT.
# 24  WISDOM IS BEFORE HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING; BUT THE EYES OF A FOOL ARE IN THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.
# 25  A FOOLISH SON IS A GRIEF TO HIS FATHER, AND BITTERNESS TO HER THAT BARE HIM.
# 26  ALSO TO PUNISH THE JUST IS NOT GOOD, NOR TO STRIKE PRINCES FOR EQUITY.
# 27  HE THAT HATH KNOWLEDGE SPARETH HIS WORDS: AND A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING IS OF AN EXCELLENT SPIRIT.
# 28  EVEN A FOOL, WHEN HE HOLDETH HIS PEACE, IS COUNTED WISE: AND HE THAT SHUTTETH HIS LIPS IS ESTEEMED A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING.
---- CHAPTER  18 
# 1 THROUGH DESIRE A MAN, HAVING SEPARATED HIMSELF, SEEKETH AND INTERMEDDLETH WITH ALL WISDOM.
# 2  A FOOL HATH NO DELIGHT IN UNDERSTANDING, BUT THAT HIS HEART MAY DISCOVER ITSELF.
# 3  WHEN THE WICKED COMETH, THEN COMETH ALSO CONTEMPT, AND WITH IGNOMINY REPROACH.
# 4  THE WORDS OF A MANS MOUTH ARE AS DEEP WATERS, AND THE WELLSPRING OF WISDOM AS A FLOWING BROOK.
# 5  IT IS NOT GOOD TO ACCEPT THE PERSON OF THE WICKED, TO OVERTHROW THE RIGHTEOUS IN JUDGMENT.
# 6  A FOOLS LIPS ENTER INTO CONTENTION, AND HIS MOUTH CALLETH FOR STROKES.
# 7  A FOOLS MOUTH IS HIS DESTRUCTION, AND HIS LIPS ARE THE SNARE OF HIS SOUL.
# 8  THE WORDS OF A TALEBEARER ARE AS WOUNDS, AND THEY GO DOWN INTO THE INNERMOST PARTS OF THE BELLY.
# 9  HE ALSO THAT IS SLOTHFUL IN HIS WORK IS BROTHER TO HIM THAT IS A GREAT WASTER.
# 10  THE NAME OF THE LORD IS A STRONG TOWER: THE RIGHTEOUS RUNNETH INTO IT, AND IS SAFE.
# 11  THE RICH MANS WEALTH IS HIS STRONG CITY, AND AS AN HIGH WALL IN HIS OWN CONCEIT.
# 12  BEFORE DESTRUCTION THE HEART OF MAN IS HAUGHTY, AND BEFORE HONOUR IS HUMILITY.
# 13  HE THAT ANSWERETH A MATTER BEFORE HE HEARETH IT, IT IS FOLLY AND SHAME UNTO HIM.
# 14  THE SPIRIT OF A MAN WILL SUSTAIN HIS INFIRMITY; BUT A WOUNDED SPIRIT WHO CAN BEAR?
# 15  THE HEART OF THE PRUDENT GETTETH KNOWLEDGE; AND THE EAR OF THE WISE SEEKETH KNOWLEDGE.
# 16  A MANS GIFT MAKETH ROOM FOR HIM, AND BRINGETH HIM BEFORE GREAT MEN.
# 17  HE THAT IS FIRST IN HIS OWN CAUSE SEEMETH JUST; BUT HIS NEIGHBOUR COMETH AND SEARCHETH HIM.
# 18  THE LOT CAUSETH CONTENTIONS TO CEASE, AND PARTETH BETWEEN THE MIGHTY.
# 19  A BROTHER OFFENDED IS HARDER TO BE WON THAN A STRONG CITY: AND THEIR CONTENTIONS ARE LIKE THE BARS OF A CASTLE.
# 20  A MANS BELLY SHALL BE SATISFIED WITH THE FRUIT OF HIS MOUTH; AND WITH THE INCREASE OF HIS LIPS SHALL HE BE FILLED.
# 21  DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE: AND THEY THAT LOVE IT SHALL EAT THE FRUIT THEREOF.
# 22  WHOSO FINDETH A WIFE FINDETH A GOOD THING, AND OBTAINETH FAVOUR OF THE LORD.
# 23  THE POOR USETH INTREATIES; BUT THE RICH ANSWERETH ROUGHLY.
# 24  A MAN THAT HATH FRIENDS MUST SHEW HIMSELF FRIENDLY: AND THERE IS A FRIEND THAT STICKETH CLOSER THAN A BROTHER.
---- CHAPTER  19 
# 1 BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKETH IN HIS INTEGRITY, THAN HE THAT IS PERVERSE IN HIS LIPS, AND IS A FOOL. IT
# 2  ALSO, THAT THE SOUL BE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE, IT IS NOT GOOD; AND HE THAT HASTETH WITH HIS FEET SINNETH.
# 3  THE FOOLISHNESS OF MAN PERVERTETH HIS WAY: AND HIS HEART FRETTETH AGAINST THE LORD.
# 4  WEALTH MAKETH MANY FRIENDS; BUT THE POOR IS SEPARATED FROM HIS NEIGHBOUR.
# 5  A FALSE WITNESS SHALL NOT BE UNPUNISHED, AND HE THAT SPEAKETH LIES SHALL NOT ESCAPE.
# 6  MANY WILL INTREAT THE FAVOUR OF THE PRINCE: AND EVERY MAN IS A FRIEND TO HIM THAT GIVETH GIFTS.
# 7  ALL THE BRETHREN OF THE POOR DO HATE HIM: HOW MUCH MORE DO HIS FRIENDS GO FAR FROM HIM? HE PURSUETH THEM WITH WORDS, YET
 THEY ARE WANTING TO HIM.
# 8  HE THAT GETTETH WISDOM LOVETH HIS OWN SOUL: HE THAT KEEPETH UNDERSTANDING SHALL FIND GOOD.
# 9  A FALSE WITNESS SHALL NOT BE UNPUNISHED, AND HE THAT SPEAKETH LIES SHALL PERISH.
# 10  DELIGHT IS NOT SEEMLY FOR A FOOL; MUCH LESS FOR A SERVANT TO HAVE RULE OVER PRINCES.
# 11  THE DISCRETION OF A MAN DEFERRETH HIS ANGER; AND IT IS HIS GLORY TO PASS OVER A TRANSGRESSION.
# 12  THE KINGS WRATH IS AS THE ROARING OF A LION; BUT HIS FAVOUR IS AS DEW UPON THE GRASS.
# 13  A FOOLISH SON IS THE CALAMITY OF HIS FATHER: AND THE CONTENTIONS OF A WIFE ARE A CONTINUAL DROPPING.
# 14  HOUSE AND RICHES ARE THE INHERITANCE OF FATHERS: AND A PRUDENT WIFE IS FROM THE LORD.
# 15  SLOTHFULNESS CASTETH INTO A DEEP SLEEP; AND AN IDLE SOUL SHALL SUFFER HUNGER.
# 16  HE THAT KEEPETH THE COMMANDMENT KEEPETH HIS OWN SOUL; BUT HE THAT DESPISETH HIS WAYS SHALL DIE.
# 17  HE THAT HATH PITY UPON THE POOR LENDETH UNTO THE LORD; AND THAT WHICH HE HATH GIVEN WILL HE PAY HIM AGAIN.
# 18  CHASTEN THY SON WHILE THERE IS HOPE, AND LET NOT THY SOUL SPARE FOR HIS CRYING.
# 19  A MAN OF GREAT WRATH SHALL SUFFER PUNISHMENT: FOR IF THOU DELIVER HIM, YET THOU MUST DO IT AGAIN.
# 20  HEAR COUNSEL, AND RECEIVE INSTRUCTION, THAT THOU MAYEST BE WISE IN THY LATTER END.
# 21  THERE ARE MANY DEVICES IN A MANS HEART; NEVERTHELESS THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD, THAT SHALL STAND.
# 22  THE DESIRE OF A MAN IS HIS KINDNESS: AND A POOR MAN IS BETTER THAN A LIAR.
# 23  THE FEAR OF THE LORD TENDETH TO LIFE: AND HE THAT HATH IT SHALL ABIDE SATISFIED; HE SHALL NOT BE VISITED WITH EVIL.
# 24  A SLOTHFUL MAN HIDETH HIS HAND IN HIS BOSOM, AND WILL NOT SO MUCH AS BRING IT TO HIS MOUTH AGAIN.
# 25  SMITE A SCORNER, AND THE SIMPLE WILL BEWARE: AND REPROVE ONE THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING, AND HE WILL UNDERSTAND KNOWLEDGE.
# 26  HE THAT WASTETH HIS FATHER, AND CHASETH AWAY HIS MOTHER, IS A SON THAT CAUSETH SHAME, AND BRINGETH REPROACH.
# 27  CEASE, MY SON, TO HEAR THE INSTRUCTION THAT CAUSETH TO ERR FROM THE WORDS OF KNOWLEDGE.
# 28  AN UNGODLY WITNESS SCORNETH JUDGMENT: AND THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED DEVOURETH INIQUITY.
# 29  JUDGMENTS ARE PREPARED FOR SCORNERS, AND STRIPES FOR THE BACK OF FOOLS.
---- CHAPTER  20 
# 1 WINE IS A MOCKER, STRONG DRINK IS RAGING: AND WHOSOEVER IS DECEIVED THEREBY IS NOT WISE.
# 2  THE FEAR OF A KING IS AS THE ROARING OF A LION: WHOSO PROVOKETH HIM TO ANGER SINNETH AGAINST HIS OWN SOUL.
# 3  IT IS AN HONOUR FOR A MAN TO CEASE FROM STRIFE: BUT EVERY FOOL WILL BE MEDDLING.
# 4  THE SLUGGARD WILL NOT PLOW BY REASON OF THE COLD; THEREFORE SHALL HE BEG IN HARVEST, AND HAVE NOTHING.
# 5  COUNSEL IN THE HEART OF MAN IS LIKE DEEP WATER; BUT A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING WILL DRAW IT OUT.
# 6  MOST MEN WILL PROCLAIM EVERY ONE HIS OWN GOODNESS: BUT A FAITHFUL MAN WHO CAN FIND?
# 7  THE JUST MAN WALKETH IN HIS INTEGRITY: HIS CHILDREN ARE BLESSED AFTER HIM.
# 8  A KING THAT SITTETH IN THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT SCATTERETH AWAY ALL EVIL WITH HIS EYES.
# 9  WHO CAN SAY, I HAVE MADE MY HEART CLEAN, I AM PURE FROM MY SIN?
# 10  DIVERS WEIGHTS, AND DIVERS MEASURES, BOTH OF THEM ARE ALIKE ABOMINATION TO THE LORD.
# 11  EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS, WHETHER HIS WORK BE PURE, AND WHETHER IT BE RIGHT.
# 12  THE HEARING EAR, AND THE SEEING EYE, THE LORD HATH MADE EVEN BOTH OF THEM.
# 13  LOVE NOT SLEEP, LEST THOU COME TO POVERTY; OPEN THINE EYES, AND THOU SHALT BE SATISFIED WITH BREAD.
# 14  IT IS NAUGHT, IT IS NAUGHT, SAITH THE BUYER: BUT WHEN HE IS GONE HIS WAY, THEN HE BOASTETH.
# 15  THERE IS GOLD, AND A MULTITUDE OF RUBIES: BUT THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE ARE A PRECIOUS JEWEL.
# 16  TAKE HIS GARMENT THAT IS SURETY FOR A STRANGER: AND TAKE A PLEDGE OF HIM FOR A STRANGE WOMAN.
# 17  BREAD OF DECEIT IS SWEET TO A MAN; BUT AFTERWARDS HIS MOUTH SHALL BE FILLED WITH GRAVEL.
# 18  EVERY PURPOSE IS ESTABLISHED BY COUNSEL: AND WITH GOOD ADVICE MAKE WAR.
# 19  HE THAT GOETH ABOUT AS A TALEBEARER REVEALETH SECRETS: THEREFORE MEDDLE NOT WITH HIM THAT FLATTERETH WITH HIS LIPS.
# 20  WHOSO CURSETH HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER, HIS LAMP SHALL BE PUT OUT IN OBSCURE DARKNESS.
# 21  AN INHERITANCE MAY BE GOTTEN HASTILY AT THE BEGINNING; BUT THE END THEREOF SHALL NOT BE BLESSED.
# 22  SAY NOT THOU, I WILL RECOMPENSE EVIL; BUT WAIT ON THE LORD, AND HE SHALL SAVE THEE.
# 23  DIVERS WEIGHTS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD; AND A FALSE BALANCE IS NOT GOOD.
# 24  MANS GOINGS ARE OF THE LORD; HOW CAN A MAN THEN UNDERSTAND HIS OWN WAY?
# 25  IT IS A SNARE TO THE MAN WHO DEVOURETH THAT WHICH IS HOLY, AND AFTER VOWS TO MAKE ENQUIRY.
# 26  A WISE KING SCATTERETH THE WICKED, AND BRINGETH THE WHEEL OVER THEM.
# 27  THE SPIRIT OF MAN IS THE CANDLE OF THE LORD, SEARCHING ALL THE INWARD PARTS OF THE BELLY.
# 28  MERCY AND TRUTH PRESERVE THE KING: AND HIS THRONE IS UPHOLDEN BY MERCY.
# 29  THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN IS THEIR STRENGTH: AND THE BEAUTY OF OLD MEN IS THE GREY HEAD.
# 30  THE BLUENESS OF A WOUND CLEANSETH AWAY EVIL: SO DO STRIPES THE INWARD PARTS OF THE BELLY.
---- CHAPTER  21 
# 1 THE KINGS HEART IS IN THE HAND OF THE LORD, AS THE RIVERS OF WATER: HE TURNETH IT WHITHERSOEVER HE WILL.
# 2  EVERY WAY OF A MAN IS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES: BUT THE LORD PONDERETH THE HEARTS.
# 3  TO DO JUSTICE AND JUDGMENT IS MORE ACCEPTABLE TO THE LORD THAN SACRIFICE.
# 4  AN HIGH LOOK, AND A PROUD HEART, AND THE PLOWING OF THE WICKED, IS SIN.
# 5  THE THOUGHTS OF THE DILIGENT TEND ONLY TO PLENTEOUSNESS; BUT OF EVERY ONE THAT IS HASTY ONLY TO WANT.
# 6  THE GETTING OF TREASURES BY A LYING TONGUE IS A VANITY TOSSED TO AND FRO OF THEM THAT SEEK DEATH.
# 7  THE ROBBERY OF THE WICKED SHALL DESTROY THEM; BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO DO JUDGMENT.
# 8  THE WAY OF MAN IS FROWARD AND STRANGE: BUT AS FOR THE PURE, HIS WORK IS RIGHT.
# 9  IT IS BETTER TO DWELL IN A CORNER OF THE HOUSETOP, THAN WITH A BRAWLING WOMAN IN A WIDE HOUSE.
# 10  THE SOUL OF THE WICKED DESIRETH EVIL: HIS NEIGHBOUR FINDETH NO FAVOUR IN HIS EYES.
# 11  WHEN THE SCORNER IS PUNISHED, THE SIMPLE IS MADE WISE: AND WHEN THE WISE IS INSTRUCTED, HE RECEIVETH KNOWLEDGE.
# 12  THE RIGHTEOUS MAN WISELY CONSIDERETH THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED: BUT GOD OVERTHROWETH THE WICKED FOR THEIR WICKEDNESS.
# 13  WHOSO STOPPETH HIS EARS AT THE CRY OF THE POOR, HE ALSO SHALL CRY HIMSELF, BUT SHALL NOT BE HEARD.
# 14  A GIFT IN SECRET PACIFIETH ANGER: AND A REWARD IN THE BOSOM STRONG WRATH.
# 15  IT IS JOY TO THE JUST TO DO JUDGMENT: BUT DESTRUCTION SHALL BE TO THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY.
# 16  THE MAN THAT WANDERETH OUT OF THE WAY OF UNDERSTANDING SHALL REMAIN IN THE CONGREGATION OF THE DEAD.
# 17  HE THAT LOVETH PLEASURE SHALL BE A POOR MAN: HE THAT LOVETH WINE AND OIL SHALL NOT BE RICH.
# 18  THE WICKED SHALL BE A RANSOM FOR THE RIGHTEOUS, AND THE TRANSGRESSOR FOR THE UPRIGHT.
# 19  IT IS BETTER TO DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS, THAN WITH A CONTENTIOUS AND AN ANGRY WOMAN.
# 20  THERE IS TREASURE TO BE DESIRED AND OIL IN THE DWELLING OF THE WISE; BUT A FOOLISH MAN SPENDETH IT UP.
# 21  HE THAT FOLLOWETH AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS AND MERCY FINDETH LIFE, RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND HONOUR.
# 22  A WISE MAN SCALETH THE CITY OF THE MIGHTY, AND CASTETH DOWN THE STRENGTH OF THE CONFIDENCE THEREOF.
# 23  WHOSO KEEPETH HIS MOUTH AND HIS TONGUE KEEPETH HIS SOUL FROM TROUBLES.
# 24  PROUD AND HAUGHTY SCORNER IS HIS NAME, WHO DEALETH IN PROUD WRATH.
# 25  THE DESIRE OF THE SLOTHFUL KILLETH HIM; FOR HIS HANDS REFUSE TO LABOUR.
# 26  HE COVETETH GREEDILY ALL THE DAY LONG: BUT THE RIGHTEOUS GIVETH AND SPARETH NOT.
# 27  THE SACRIFICE OF THE WICKED IS ABOMINATION: HOW MUCH MORE, WHEN HE BRINGETH IT WITH A WICKED MIND?
# 28  A FALSE WITNESS SHALL PERISH: BUT THE MAN THAT HEARETH SPEAKETH CONSTANTLY.
# 29  A WICKED MAN HARDENETH HIS FACE: BUT AS FOR THE UPRIGHT, HE DIRECTETH HIS WAY.
# 30  THERE IS NO WISDOM NOR UNDERSTANDING NOR COUNSEL AGAINST THE LORD.
# 31  THE HORSE IS PREPARED AGAINST THE DAY OF BATTLE: BUT SAFETY IS OF THE LORD.
---- CHAPTER  22 
# 1 A GOOD NAME IS RATHER TO BE CHOSEN THAN GREAT RICHES, AND LOVING FAVOUR RATHER THAN SILVER AND GOLD.
# 2  THE RICH AND POOR MEET TOGETHER: THE LORD IS THE MAKER OF THEM ALL.
# 3  A PRUDENT MAN FORESEETH THE EVIL, AND HIDETH HIMSELF: BUT THE SIMPLE PASS ON, AND ARE PUNISHED.
# 4  BY HUMILITY AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD ARE RICHES, AND HONOUR, AND LIFE.
# 5  THORNS AND SNARES ARE IN THE WAY OF THE FROWARD: HE THAT DOTH KEEP HIS SOUL SHALL BE FAR FROM THEM.
# 6  TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO: AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT.
# 7  THE RICH RULETH OVER THE POOR, AND THE BORROWER IS SERVANT TO THE LENDER.
# 8  HE THAT SOWETH INIQUITY SHALL REAP VANITY: AND THE ROD OF HIS ANGER SHALL FAIL.
# 9  HE THAT HATH A BOUNTIFUL EYE SHALL BE BLESSED; FOR HE GIVETH OF HIS BREAD TO THE POOR.
# 10  CAST OUT THE SCORNER, AND CONTENTION SHALL GO OUT; YEA, STRIFE AND REPROACH SHALL CEASE.
# 11  HE THAT LOVETH PURENESS OF HEART, FOR THE GRACE OF HIS LIPS THE KING SHALL BE HIS FRIEND.
# 12  THE EYES OF THE LORD PRESERVE KNOWLEDGE, AND HE OVERTHROWETH THE WORDS OF THE TRANSGRESSOR.
# 13  THE SLOTHFUL MAN SAITH, THERE IS A LION WITHOUT, I SHALL BE SLAIN IN THE STREETS.
# 14  THE MOUTH OF STRANGE WOMEN IS A DEEP PIT: HE THAT IS ABHORRED OF THE LORD SHALL FALL THEREIN.
# 15  FOOLISHNESS IS BOUND IN THE HEART OF A CHILD; BUT THE ROD OF CORRECTION SHALL DRIVE IT FAR FROM HIM.
# 16  HE THAT OPPRESSETH THE POOR TO INCREASE HIS RICHES, AND HE THAT GIVETH TO THE RICH, SHALL SURELY COME TO WANT.
# 17  BOW DOWN THINE EAR, AND HEAR THE WORDS OF THE WISE, AND APPLY THINE HEART UNTO MY KNOWLEDGE.
# 18  FOR IT IS A PLEASANT THING IF THOU KEEP THEM WITHIN THEE; THEY SHALL WITHAL BE FITTED IN THY LIPS.
# 19  THAT THY TRUST MAY BE IN THE LORD, I HAVE MADE KNOWN TO THEE THIS DAY, EVEN TO THEE.
# 20  HAVE NOT I WRITTEN TO THEE EXCELLENT THINGS IN COUNSELS AND KNOWLEDGE,
# 21  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?
# 22  ROB NOT THE POOR, BECAUSE HE IS POOR: NEITHER OPPRESS THE AFFLICTED IN THE GATE:
# 23  FOR THE LORD WILL PLEAD THEIR CAUSE, AND SPOIL THE SOUL OF THOSE THAT SPOILED THEM.
# 24  MAKE NO FRIENDSHIP WITH AN ANGRY MAN; AND WITH A FURIOUS MAN THOU SHALT NOT GO:
# 25  LEST THOU LEARN HIS WAYS, AND GET A SNARE TO THY SOUL.
# 26  BE NOT THOU ONE OF THEM THAT STRIKE HANDS, OR OF THEM THAT ARE SURETIES FOR DEBTS.
# 27  IF THOU HAST NOTHING TO PAY, WHY SHOULD HE TAKE AWAY THY BED FROM UNDER THEE?
# 28  REMOVE NOT THE ANCIENT LANDMARK, WHICH THY FATHERS HAVE SET.
# 29  SEEST THOU A MAN DILIGENT IN HIS BUSINESS? HE SHALL STAND BEFORE KINGS; HE SHALL NOT STAND BEFORE MEAN MEN.
---- CHAPTER  23 
# 1 WHEN THOU SITTEST TO EAT WITH A RULER, CONSIDER DILIGENTLY WHAT IS BEFORE THEE:
# 2  AND PUT A KNIFE TO THY THROAT, IF THOU BE A MAN GIVEN TO APPETITE.
# 3  BE NOT DESIROUS OF HIS DAINTIES: FOR THEY ARE DECEITFUL MEAT.
# 4  LABOUR NOT TO BE RICH: CEASE FROM THINE OWN WISDOM.
# 5  WILT THOU SET THINE EYES UPON THAT WHICH IS NOT? FOR RICHES CERTAINLY MAKE THEMSELVES WINGS; THEY FLY AWAY AS AN EAGLE TOW
ARD HEAVEN.
# 6  EAT THOU NOT THE BREAD OF HIM THAT HATH AN EVIL EYE, NEITHER DESIRE THOU HIS DAINTY MEATS:
# 7  FOR AS HE THINKETH IN HIS HEART, SO IS HE: EAT AND DRINK, SAITH HE TO THEE; BUT HIS HEART IS NOT WITH THEE.
# 8  THE MORSEL WHICH THOU HAST EATEN SHALT THOU VOMIT UP, AND LOSE THY SWEET WORDS.
# 9  SPEAK NOT IN THE EARS OF A FOOL: FOR HE WILL DESPISE THE WISDOM OF THY WORDS.
# 10  REMOVE NOT THE OLD LANDMARK; AND ENTER NOT INTO THE FIELDS OF THE FATHERLESS:
# 11  FOR THEIR REDEEMER IS MIGHTY; HE SHALL PLEAD THEIR CAUSE WITH THEE.
# 12  APPLY THINE HEART UNTO INSTRUCTION, AND THINE EARS TO THE WORDS OF KNOWLEDGE.
# 13  WITHHOLD NOT CORRECTION FROM THE CHILD: FOR IF THOU BEATEST HIM WITH THE ROD, HE SHALL NOT DIE.
# 14  THOU SHALT BEAT HIM WITH THE ROD, AND SHALT DELIVER HIS SOUL FROM HELL.
# 15  MY SON, IF THINE HEART BE WISE, MY HEART SHALL REJOICE, EVEN MINE.
# 16  YEA, MY REINS SHALL REJOICE, WHEN THY LIPS SPEAK RIGHT THINGS.
# 17  LET NOT THINE HEART ENVY SINNERS: BUT BE THOU IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD ALL THE DAY LONG.
# 18  FOR SURELY THERE IS AN END; AND THINE EXPECTATION SHALL NOT BE CUT OFF.
# 19  HEAR THOU, MY SON, AND BE WISE, AND GUIDE THINE HEART IN THE WAY.
# 20  BE NOT AMONG WINEBIBBERS; AMONG RIOTOUS EATERS OF FLESH:
# 21  FOR THE DRUNKARD AND THE GLUTTON SHALL COME TO POVERTY: AND DROWSINESS SHALL CLOTHE A MAN WITH RAGS.
# 22  HEARKEN UNTO THY FATHER THAT BEGAT THEE, AND DESPISE NOT THY MOTHER WHEN SHE IS OLD.
# 23  BUY THE TRUTH, AND SELL IT NOT; ALSO WISDOM, AND INSTRUCTION, AND UNDERSTANDING.
# 24  THE FATHER OF THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL GREATLY REJOICE: AND HE THAT BEGETTETH A WISE CHILD SHALL HAVE JOY OF HIM.
# 25  THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER SHALL BE GLAD, AND SHE THAT BARE THEE SHALL REJOICE.
# 26  MY SON, GIVE ME THINE HEART, AND LET THINE EYES OBSERVE MY WAYS.
# 27  FOR A WHORE IS A DEEP DITCH; AND A STRANGE WOMAN IS A NARROW PIT. IT
# 28  SHE ALSO LIETH IN WAIT AS FOR A PREY, AND INCREASETH THE TRANSGRESSORS AMONG MEN.
# 29  WHO HATH WOE? WHO HATH SORROW? WHO HATH CONTENTIONS? WHO HATH BABBLING? WHO HATH WOUNDS WITHOUT CAUSE? WHO HATH REDNESS OF
 EYES?
# 30  THEY THAT TARRY LONG AT THE WINE; THEY THAT GO TO SEEK MIXED WINE.
# 31  LOOK NOT THOU UPON THE WINE WHEN IT IS RED, WHEN IT GIVETH HIS COLOUR IN THE CUP, WHEN IT MOVETH ITSELF ARIGHT.
# 32  AT THE LAST IT BITETH LIKE A SERPENT, AND STINGETH LIKE AN ADDER.
# 33  THINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD STRANGE WOMEN, AND THINE HEART SHALL UTTER PERVERSE THINGS.
# 34  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.
# 35  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.
---- CHAPTER  24 
# 1 BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN, NEITHER DESIRE TO BE WITH THEM.
# 2  FOR THEIR HEART STUDIETH DESTRUCTION, AND THEIR LIPS TALK OF MISCHIEF.
# 3  THROUGH WISDOM IS AN HOUSE BUILDED; AND BY UNDERSTANDING IT IS ESTABLISHED:
# 4  AND BY KNOWLEDGE SHALL THE CHAMBERS BE FILLED WITH ALL PRECIOUS AND PLEASANT RICHES.
# 5  A WISE MAN IS STRONG; YEA, A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE INCREASETH STRENGTH.
# 6  FOR BY WISE COUNSEL THOU SHALT MAKE THY WAR: AND IN MULTITUDE OF COUNSELLORS THERE IS SAFETY.
# 7  WISDOM IS TOO HIGH FOR A FOOL: HE OPENETH NOT HIS MOUTH IN THE GATE.
# 8  HE THAT DEVISETH TO DO EVIL SHALL BE CALLED A MISCHIEVOUS PERSON.
# 9  THE THOUGHT OF FOOLISHNESS IS SIN: AND THE SCORNER IS AN ABOMINATION TO MEN.
# 10  IF THOU FAINT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY, THY STRENGTH IS SMALL.
# 11  IF THOU FORBEAR TO DELIVER THEM THAT ARE DRAWN UNTO DEATH, AND THOSE THAT ARE READY TO BE SLAIN;
# 12  IF THOU SAYEST, BEHOLD, WE KNEW IT NOT; DOTH NOT HE THAT PONDERETH THE HEART CONSIDER IT? AND HE THAT KEEPETH THY SOUL, DOT
H NOT HE KNOW IT? AND SHALL NOT HE RENDER TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS?
# 13  MY SON, EAT THOU HONEY, BECAUSE IT IS GOOD; AND THE HONEYCOMB, WHICH IS SWEET TO THY TASTE:
# 14  SO SHALL THE KNOWLEDGE OF WISDOM BE UNTO THY SOUL: WHEN THOU HAST FOUND IT, THEN THERE SHALL BE A REWARD, AND THY EXPECTAT
ION SHALL NOT BE CUT OFF.
# 15  LAY NOT WAIT, O WICKED MAN, AGAINST THE DWELLING OF THE RIGHTEOUS; SPOIL NOT HIS RESTING PLACE:
# 16  FOR A JUST MAN FALLETH SEVEN TIMES, AND RISETH UP AGAIN: BUT THE WICKED SHALL FALL INTO MISCHIEF.
# 17  REJOICE NOT WHEN THINE ENEMY FALLETH, AND LET NOT THINE HEART BE GLAD WHEN HE STUMBLETH:
# 18  LEST THE LORD SEE IT, AND IT DISPLEASE HIM, AND HE TURN AWAY HIS WRATH FROM HIM.
# 19  FRET NOT THYSELF BECAUSE OF EVIL MEN, NEITHER BE THOU ENVIOUS AT THE WICKED:
# 20  FOR THERE SHALL BE NO REWARD TO THE EVIL MAN; THE CANDLE OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT.
# 21  MY SON, FEAR THOU THE LORD AND THE KING: AND MEDDLE NOT WITH THEM THAT ARE GIVEN TO CHANGE:
# 22  FOR THEIR CALAMITY SHALL RISE SUDDENLY; AND WHO KNOWETH THE RUIN OF THEM BOTH?
# 23  THESE THINGS ALSO BELONG TO THE WISE. IT IS NOT GOOD TO HAVE RESPECT OF PERSONS IN JUDGMENT.
# 24  HE THAT SAITH UNTO THE WICKED, THOU ARE RIGHTEOUS; HIM SHALL THE PEOPLE CURSE, NATIONS SHALL ABHOR HIM:
# 25  BUT TO THEM THAT REBUKE HIM SHALL BE DELIGHT, AND A GOOD BLESSING SHALL COME UPON THEM.
# 26  EVERY MAN SHALL KISS HIS LIPS THAT GIVETH A RIGHT ANSWER.
# 27  PREPARE THY WORK WITHOUT, AND MAKE IT FIT FOR THYSELF IN THE FIELD; AND AFTERWARDS BUILD THINE HOUSE.
# 28  BE NOT A WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR WITHOUT CAUSE; AND DECEIVE NOT WITH THY LIPS.
# 29  SAY NOT, I WILL DO SO TO HIM AS HE HATH DONE TO ME: I WILL RENDER TO THE MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORK.
# 30  I WENT BY THE FIELD OF THE SLOTHFUL, AND BY THE VINEYARD OF THE MAN VOID OF UNDERSTANDING;
# 31  AND, LO, IT WAS ALL GROWN OVER WITH THORNS, AND NETTLES HAD COVERED THE FACE THEREOF, AND THE STONE WALL THEREOF WAS BROKEN
 DOWN.
# 32  THEN I SAW, AND CONSIDERED IT WELL: I LOOKED UPON IT, AND RECEIVED INSTRUCTION.
# 33  YET A LITTLE SLEEP, A LITTLE SLUMBER, A LITTLE FOLDING OF THE HANDS TO SLEEP:
# 34  SO SHALL THY POVERTY COME AS ONE THAT TRAVELLETH; AND THY WANT AS AN ARMED MAN.
---- CHAPTER  25 
# 1 THESE ARE ALSO PROVERBS OF SOLOMON, WHICH THE MEN OF HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH COPIED OUT.
# 2  IT IS THE GLORY OF GOD TO CONCEAL A THING: BUT THE HONOUR OF KINGS IS TO SEARCH OUT A MATTER.
# 3  THE HEAVEN FOR HEIGHT, AND THE EARTH FOR DEPTH, AND THE HEART OF KINGS IS UNSEARCHABLE.
# 4  TAKE AWAY THE DROSS FROM THE SILVER, AND THERE SHALL COME FORTH A VESSEL FOR THE FINER.
# 5  TAKE AWAY THE WICKED FROM BEFORE THE KING, AND HIS THRONE SHALL BE ESTABLISHED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
# 6  PUT NOT FORTH THYSELF IN THE PRESENCE OF THE KING, AND STAND NOT IN THE PLACE OF GREAT MEN:
# 7  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 PR
INCE WHOM THINE EYES HAVE SEEN.
# 8  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
.
# 9  DEBATE THY CAUSE WITH THY NEIGHBOUR HIMSELF; AND DISCOVER NOT A SECRET TO ANOTHER:
# 10  LEST HE THAT HEARETH IT PUT THEE TO SHAME, AND THINE INFAMY TURN NOT AWAY.
# 11  A WORD FITLY SPOKEN IS LIKE APPLES OF GOLD IN PICTURES OF SILVER.
# 12  AS AN EARRING OF GOLD, AND AN ORNAMENT OF FINE GOLD, SO IS A WISE REPROVER UPON AN OBEDIENT EAR.
# 13  AS THE COLD OF SNOW IN THE TIME OF HARVEST, SO IS A FAITHFUL MESSENGER TO THEM THAT SEND HIM: FOR HE REFRESHETH THE SOUL OF
 HIS MASTERS.
# 14  WHOSO BOASTETH HIMSELF OF A FALSE GIFT IS LIKE CLOUDS AND WIND WITHOUT RAIN.
# 15  BY LONG FORBEARING IS A PRINCE PERSUADED, AND A SOFT TONGUE BREAKETH THE BONE.
# 16  HAST THOU FOUND HONEY? EAT SO MUCH AS IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEE, LEST THOU BE FILLED THEREWITH, AND VOMIT IT.
# 17  WITHDRAW THY FOOT FROM THY NEIGHBOURS HOUSE; LEST HE BE WEARY OF THEE, AND SO HATE THEE.
# 18  A MAN THAT BEARETH FALSE WITNESS AGAINST HIS NEIGHBOUR IS A MAUL, AND A SWORD, AND A SHARP ARROW.
# 19  CONFIDENCE IN AN UNFAITHFUL MAN IN TIME OF TROUBLE IS LIKE A BROKEN TOOTH, AND A FOOT OUT OF JOINT.
# 20  AS HE THAT TAKETH AWAY A GARMENT IN COLD WEATHER, AND AS VINEGAR UPON NITRE, SO IS HE THAT SINGETH SONGS TO AN HEAVY HEART.
# 21  IF THINE ENEMY BE HUNGRY, GIVE HIM BREAD TO EAT; AND IF HE BE THIRSTY, GIVE HIM WATER TO DRINK:
# 22  FOR THOU SHALT HEAP COALS OF FIRE UPON HIS HEAD, AND THE LORD SHALL REWARD THEE.
# 23  THE NORTH WIND DRIVETH AWAY RAIN: SO DOTH AN ANGRY COUNTENANCE A BACKBITING TONGUE.
# 24  IT IS BETTER TO DWELL IN THE CORNER OF THE HOUSETOP, THAN WITH A BRAWLING WOMAN AND IN A WIDE HOUSE.
# 25  AS COLD WATERS TO A THIRSTY SOUL, SO IS GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY.
# 26  A RIGHTEOUS MAN FALLING DOWN BEFORE THE WICKED IS AS A TROUBLED FOUNTAIN, AND A CORRUPT SPRING.
# 27  IT IS NOT GOOD TO EAT MUCH HONEY: SO FOR MEN TO SEARCH THEIR OWN GLORY IS NOT GLORY.
# 28  HE THAT HATH NO RULE OVER HIS OWN SPIRIT IS LIKE A CITY THAT IS BROKEN DOWN, AND WITHOUT WALLS.
---- CHAPTER  26 
# 1 AS SNOW IN SUMMER, AND AS RAIN IN HARVEST, SO HONOUR IS NOT SEEMLY FOR A FOOL.
# 2  AS THE BIRD BY WANDERING, AS THE SWALLOW BY FLYING, SO THE CURSE CAUSELESS SHALL NOT COME.
# 3  A WHIP FOR THE HORSE, A BRIDLE FOR THE ASS, AND A ROD FOR THE FOOLS BACK.
# 4  ANSWER NOT A FOOL ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY, LEST THOU ALSO BE LIKE UNTO HIM.
# 5  ANSWER A FOOL ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY, LEST HE BE WISE IN HIS OWN CONCEIT.
# 6  HE THAT SENDETH A MESSAGE BY THE HAND OF A FOOL CUTTETH OFF THE FEET, AND DRINKETH DAMAGE.
# 7  THE LEGS OF THE LAME ARE NOT EQUAL: SO IS A PARABLE IN THE MOUTH OF FOOLS.
# 8  AS HE THAT BINDETH A STONE IN A SLING, SO IS HE THAT GIVETH HONOUR TO A FOOL.
# 9  AS A THORN GOETH UP INTO THE HAND OF A DRUNKARD, SO IS A PARABLE IN THE MOUTHS OF FOOLS.
# 10  THE GREAT GOD THAT FORMED ALL THINGS BOTH REWARDETH THE FOOL, AND REWARDETH TRANSGRESSORS.
# 11  AS A DOG RETURNETH TO HIS VOMIT, SO A FOOL RETURNETH TO HIS FOLLY.
# 12  SEEST THOU A MAN WISE IN HIS OWN CONCEIT? THERE IS MORE HOPE OF A FOOL THAN OF HIM.
# 13  THE SLOTHFUL MAN SAITH, THERE IS A LION IN THE WAY; A LION IS IN THE STREETS.
# 14  AS THE DOOR TURNETH UPON HIS HINGES, SO DOTH THE SLOTHFUL UPON HIS BED.
# 15  THE SLOTHFUL HIDETH HIS HAND IN HIS BOSOM; IT GRIEVETH HIM TO BRING IT AGAIN TO HIS MOUTH.
# 16  THE SLUGGARD IS WISER IN HIS OWN CONCEIT THAN SEVEN MEN THAT CAN RENDER A REASON.
# 17  HE THAT PASSETH BY, AND MEDDLETH WITH STRIFE BELONGING NOT TO HIM, IS LIKE ONE THAT TAKETH A DOG BY THE EARS.
# 18  AS A MAD MAN WHO CASTETH FIREBRANDS, ARROWS, AND DEATH,
# 19  SO IS THE MAN THAT DECEIVETH HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND SAITH, AM NOT I IN SPORT?
# 20  WHERE NO WOOD IS, THERE THE FIRE GOETH OUT: SO WHERE THERE IS NO TALEBEARER, THE STRIFE CEASETH.
# 21  AS COALS ARE TO BURNING COALS, AND WOOD TO FIRE; SO IS A CONTENTIOUS MAN TO KINDLE STRIFE.
# 22  THE WORDS OF A TALEBEARER ARE AS WOUNDS, AND THEY GO DOWN INTO THE INNERMOST PARTS OF THE BELLY.
# 23  BURNING LIPS AND A WICKED HEART ARE LIKE A POTSHERD COVERED WITH SILVER DROSS.
# 24  HE THAT HATETH DISSEMBLETH WITH HIS LIPS, AND LAYETH UP DECEIT WITHIN HIM;
# 25  WHEN HE SPEAKETH FAIR, BELIEVE HIM NOT: FOR THERE ARE SEVEN ABOMINATIONS IN HIS HEART.
# 26  WHOSE HATRED IS COVERED BY DECEIT, HIS WICKEDNESS SHALL BE SHEWED BEFORE THE WHOLE CONGREGATION.
# 27  WHOSO DIGGETH A PIT SHALL FALL THEREIN: AND HE THAT ROLLETH A STONE, IT WILL RETURN UPON HIM.
# 28  A LYING TONGUE HATETH THOSE THAT ARE AFFLICTED BY IT; AND A FLATTERING MOUTH WORKETH RUIN.
---- CHAPTER  27 
# 1 BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TO MORROW; FOR THOU KNOWEST NOT WHAT A DAY MAY BRING FORTH.
# 2  LET ANOTHER MAN PRAISE THEE, AND NOT THINE OWN MOUTH; A STRANGER, AND NOT THINE OWN LIPS.
# 3  A STONE IS HEAVY, AND THE SAND WEIGHTY; BUT A FOOLS WRATH IS HEAVIER THAN THEM BOTH.
# 4  WRATH IS CRUEL, AND ANGER IS OUTRAGEOUS; BUT WHO IS ABLE TO STAND BEFORE ENVY?
# 5  OPEN REBUKE IS BETTER THAN SECRET LOVE.
# 6  FAITHFUL ARE THE WOUNDS OF A FRIEND; BUT THE KISSES OF AN ENEMY ARE DECEITFUL.
# 7  THE FULL SOUL LOATHETH AN HONEYCOMB; BUT TO THE HUNGRY SOUL EVERY BITTER THING IS SWEET.
# 8  AS A BIRD THAT WANDERETH FROM HER NEST, SO IS A MAN THAT WANDERETH FROM HIS PLACE.
# 9  OINTMENT AND PERFUME REJOICE THE HEART: SO DOTH THE SWEETNESS OF A MANS FRIEND BY HEARTY COUNSEL.
# 10  THINE OWN FRIEND, AND THY FATHERS FRIEND, FORSAKE NOT; NEITHER GO INTO THY BROTHERS HOUSE IN THE DAY OF THY CALAMITY: FOR
 BETTER IS A NEIGHBOUR THAT IS NEAR THAN A BROTHER FAR OFF.
# 11  MY SON, BE WISE, AND MAKE MY HEART GLAD, THAT I MAY ANSWER HIM THAT REPROACHETH ME.
# 12  A PRUDENT MAN FORESEETH THE EVIL, AND HIDETH HIMSELF; BUT THE SIMPLE PASS ON, AND ARE PUNISHED.
# 13  TAKE HIS GARMENT THAT IS SURETY FOR A STRANGER, AND TAKE A PLEDGE OF HIM FOR A STRANGE WOMAN.
# 14  HE THAT BLESSETH HIS FRIEND WITH A LOUD VOICE, RISING EARLY IN THE MORNING, IT SHALL BE COUNTED A CURSE TO HIM.
# 15  A CONTINUAL DROPPING IN A VERY RAINY DAY AND A CONTENTIOUS WOMAN ARE ALIKE.
# 16  WHOSOEVER HIDETH HER HIDETH THE WIND, AND THE OINTMENT OF HIS RIGHT HAND, WHICH BEWRAYETH ITSELF.
# 17  IRON SHARPENETH IRON; SO A MAN SHARPENETH THE COUNTENANCE OF HIS FRIEND.
# 18  WHOSO KEEPETH THE FIG TREE SHALL EAT THE FRUIT THEREOF: SO HE THAT WAITETH ON HIS MASTER SHALL BE HONOURED.
# 19  AS IN WATER FACE ANSWERETH TO FACE, SO THE HEART OF MAN TO MAN.
# 20  HELL AND DESTRUCTION ARE NEVER FULL; SO THE EYES OF MAN ARE NEVER SATISFIED.
# 21  AS THE FINING POT FOR SILVER, AND THE FURNACE FOR GOLD; SO IS A MAN TO HIS PRAISE.
# 22  THOUGH THOU SHOULDEST BRAY A FOOL IN A MORTAR AMONG WHEAT WITH A PESTLE, YET WILL NOT HIS FOOLISHNESS DEPART FROM HIM.
# 23  BE THOU DILIGENT TO KNOW THE STATE OF THY FLOCKS, AND LOOK WELL TO THY HERDS.
# 24  FOR RICHES ARE NOT FOR EVER: AND DOTH THE CROWN ENDURE TO EVERY GENERATION?
# 25  THE HAY APPEARETH, AND THE TENDER GRASS SHEWETH ITSELF, AND HERBS OF THE MOUNTAINS ARE GATHERED.
# 26  THE LAMBS ARE FOR THY CLOTHING, AND THE GOATS ARE THE PRICE OF THE FIELD.
# 27  AND THOU SHALT HAVE GOATS MILK ENOUGH FOR THY FOOD, FOR THE FOOD OF THY HOUSEHOLD, AND FOR THE MAINTENANCE FOR THY MAIDENS.
---- CHAPTER  28 
# 1 THE WICKED FLEE WHEN NO MAN PURSUETH: BUT THE RIGHTEOUS ARE BOLD AS A LION.
# 2  FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF A LAND MANY ARE THE PRINCES THEREOF: BUT BY A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE THE STATE THEREOF
 SHALL BE PROLONGED.
# 3  A POOR MAN THAT OPPRESSETH THE POOR IS LIKE A SWEEPING RAIN WHICH LEAVETH NO FOOD.
# 4  THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LAW PRAISE THE WICKED: BUT SUCH AS KEEP THE LAW CONTEND WITH THEM.
# 5  EVIL MEN UNDERSTAND NOT JUDGMENT: BUT THEY THAT SEEK THE LORD UNDERSTAND ALL THINGS.
# 6  BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKETH IN HIS UPRIGHTNESS, THAN HE THAT IS PERVERSE IN HIS WAYS, THOUGH HE BE RICH.
# 7  WHOSO KEEPETH THE LAW IS A WISE SON: BUT HE THAT IS A COMPANION OF RIOTOUS MEN SHAMETH HIS FATHER.
# 8  HE THAT BY USURY AND UNJUST GAIN INCREASETH HIS SUBSTANCE, HE SHALL GATHER IT FOR HIM THAT WILL PITY THE POOR.
# 9  HE THAT TURNETH AWAY HIS EAR FROM HEARING THE LAW, EVEN HIS PRAYER SHALL BE ABOMINATION. IT
# 10  WHOSO CAUSETH THE RIGHTEOUS TO GO ASTRAY IN AN EVIL WAY, HE SHALL FALL HIMSELF INTO HIS OWN PIT: BUT THE UPRIGHT SHALL HAVE
 GOOD THINGS IN POSSESSION.
# 11  THE RICH MAN IS WISE IN HIS OWN CONCEIT; BUT THE POOR THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING SEARCHETH HIM OUT.
# 12  WHEN RIGHTEOUS MEN DO REJOICE, THERE IS GREAT GLORY: BUT WHEN THE WICKED RISE, A MAN IS HIDDEN.
# 13  HE THAT COVERETH HIS SINS SHALL NOT PROSPER: BUT WHOSO CONFESSETH AND FORSAKETH THEM SHALL HAVE MERCY.
# 14  HAPPY IS THE MAN THAT FEARETH ALWAY: BUT HE THAT HARDENETH HIS HEART SHALL FALL INTO MISCHIEF.
# 15  AS A ROARING LION, AND A RANGING BEAR; SO IS A WICKED RULER OVER THE POOR PEOPLE.
# 16  THE PRINCE THAT WANTETH UNDERSTANDING IS ALSO A GREAT OPPRESSOR: BUT HE THAT HATETH COVETOUSNESS SHALL PROLONG HIS DAYS.
# 17  A MAN THAT DOETH VIOLENCE TO THE BLOOD OF ANY PERSON SHALL FLEE TO THE PIT; LET NO MAN STAY HIM.
# 18  WHOSO WALKETH UPRIGHTLY SHALL BE SAVED: BUT HE THAT IS PERVERSE IN HIS WAYS SHALL FALL AT ONCE.
# 19  HE THAT TILLETH HIS LAND SHALL HAVE PLENTY OF BREAD: BUT HE THAT FOLLOWETH AFTER VAIN PERSONS SHALL HAVE POVERTY ENOUGH.
# 20  A FAITHFUL MAN SHALL ABOUND WITH BLESSINGS: BUT HE THAT MAKETH HASTE TO BE RICH SHALL NOT BE INNOCENT.
# 21  TO HAVE RESPECT OF PERSONS IS NOT GOOD: FOR FOR A PIECE OF BREAD THAT MAN WILL TRANSGRESS.
# 22  HE THAT HASTETH TO BE RICH HATH AN EVIL EYE, AND CONSIDERETH NOT THAT POVERTY SHALL COME UPON HIM.
# 23  HE THAT REBUKETH A MAN AFTERWARDS SHALL FIND MORE FAVOUR THAN HE THAT FLATTERETH WITH THE TONGUE.
# 24  WHOSO ROBBETH HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER, AND SAITH, IT IS NO TRANSGRESSION; THE SAME IS THE COMPANION OF A DESTROYER.
# 25  HE THAT IS OF A PROUD HEART STIRRETH UP STRIFE: BUT HE THAT PUTTETH HIS TRUST IN THE LORD SHALL BE MADE FAT.
# 26  HE THAT TRUSTETH IN HIS OWN HEART IS A FOOL: BUT WHOSO WALKETH WISELY, HE SHALL BE DELIVERED.
# 27  HE THAT GIVETH UNTO THE POOR SHALL NOT LACK: BUT HE THAT HIDETH HIS EYES SHALL HAVE MANY A CURSE.
# 28  WHEN THE WICKED RISE, MEN HIDE THEMSELVES: BUT WHEN THEY PERISH, THE RIGHTEOUS INCREASE.
---- CHAPTER  29 
# 1 HE, THAT BEING OFTEN REPROVED HARDENETH HIS NECK, SHALL SUDDENLY BE DESTROYED, AND THAT WITHOUT REMEDY.
# 2  WHEN THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN AUTHORITY, THE PEOPLE REJOICE: BUT WHEN THE WICKED BEARETH RULE, THE PEOPLE MOURN.
# 3  WHOSO LOVETH WISDOM REJOICETH HIS FATHER: BUT HE THAT KEEPETH COMPANY WITH HARLOTS SPENDETH HIS SUBSTANCE.
# 4  THE KING BY JUDGMENT ESTABLISHETH THE LAND: BUT HE THAT RECEIVETH GIFTS OVERTHROWETH IT.
# 5  A MAN THAT FLATTERETH HIS NEIGHBOUR SPREADETH A NET FOR HIS FEET.
# 6  IN THE TRANSGRESSION OF AN EVIL MAN THERE IS A SNARE: BUT THE RIGHTEOUS DOTH SING AND REJOICE.
# 7  THE RIGHTEOUS CONSIDERETH THE CAUSE OF THE POOR: BUT THE WICKED REGARDETH NOT TO KNOW IT.
# 8  SCORNFUL MEN BRING A CITY INTO A SNARE: BUT WISE MEN TURN AWAY WRATH.
# 9  IF A WISE MAN CONTENDETH WITH A FOOLISH MAN, WHETHER HE RAGE OR LAUGH, THERE IS NO REST.
# 10  THE BLOODTHIRSTY HATE THE UPRIGHT: BUT THE JUST SEEK HIS SOUL.
# 11  A FOOL UTTERETH ALL HIS MIND: BUT A WISE MAN KEEPETH IT IN TILL AFTERWARDS.
# 12  IF A RULER HEARKEN TO LIES, ALL HIS SERVANTS ARE WICKED.
# 13  THE POOR AND THE DECEITFUL MAN MEET TOGETHER: THE LORD LIGHTENETH BOTH THEIR EYES.
# 14  THE KING THAT FAITHFULLY JUDGETH THE POOR, HIS THRONE SHALL BE ESTABLISHED FOR EVER.
# 15  THE ROD AND REPROOF GIVE WISDOM: BUT A CHILD LEFT TO HIMSELF BRINGETH HIS MOTHER TO SHAME.
# 16  WHEN THE WICKED ARE MULTIPLIED, TRANSGRESSION INCREASETH: BUT THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL SEE THEIR FALL.
# 17  CORRECT THY SON, AND HE SHALL GIVE THEE REST; YEA, HE SHALL GIVE DELIGHT UNTO THY SOUL.
# 18  WHERE THERE IS NO VISION, THE PEOPLE PERISH: BUT HE THAT KEEPETH THE LAW, HAPPY IS HE.
# 19  A SERVANT WILL NOT BE CORRECTED BY WORDS: FOR THOUGH HE UNDERSTAND HE WILL NOT ANSWER.
# 20  SEEST THOU A MAN THAT IS HASTY IN HIS WORDS? THERE IS MORE HOPE OF A FOOL THAN OF HIM.
# 21  HE THAT DELICATELY BRINGETH UP HIS SERVANT FROM A CHILD SHALL HAVE HIM BECOME HIS SON AT THE LENGTH.
# 22  AN ANGRY MAN STIRRETH UP STRIFE, AND A FURIOUS MAN ABOUNDETH IN TRANSGRESSION.
# 23  A MANS PRIDE SHALL BRING HIM LOW: BUT HONOUR SHALL UPHOLD THE HUMBLE IN SPIRIT.
# 24  WHOSO IS PARTNER WITH A THIEF HATETH HIS OWN SOUL: HE HEARETH CURSING, AND BEWRAYETH IT NOT.
# 25  THE FEAR OF MAN BRINGETH A SNARE: BUT WHOSO PUTTETH HIS TRUST IN THE LORD SHALL BE SAFE.
# 26  MANY SEEK THE RULERS FAVOUR; BUT EVERY MANS JUDGMENT COMETH FROM THE LORD.
# 27  AN UNJUST MAN IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE JUST: AND HE THAT IS UPRIGHT IN THE WAY IS ABOMINATION TO THE WICKED.
---- CHAPTER  30 
# 1 THE WORDS OF AGUR THE SON OF JAKEH, EVEN THE PROPHECY: THE MAN SPAKE UNTO ITHIEL, EVEN UNTO ITHIEL AND UCAL,
# 2  SURELY I AM MORE BRUTISH THAN ANY MAN, AND HAVE NOT THE UNDERSTANDING OF A MAN.
# 3  I NEITHER LEARNED WISDOM, NOR HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY.
# 4  WHO HATH ASCENDED UP INTO HEAVEN, OR DESCENDED? WHO HATH GATHERED THE WIND IN HIS FISTS? WHO HATH BOUND THE WATERS IN A GAR
MENT? WHO HATH ESTABLISHED ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH? WHAT IS HIS NAME, AND WHAT IS HIS SONS NAME, IF THOU CANST TELL?
# 5  EVERY WORD OF GOD IS PURE: HE IS A SHIELD UNTO THEM THAT PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM.
# 6  ADD THOU NOT UNTO HIS WORDS, LEST HE REPROVE THEE, AND THOU BE FOUND A LIAR.
# 7  TWO THINGS HAVE I REQUIRED OF THEE; DENY ME THEM NOT BEFORE I DIE:
# 8  REMOVE FAR FROM ME VANITY AND LIES: GIVE ME NEITHER POVERTY NOR RICHES; FEED ME WITH FOOD CONVENIENT FOR ME:
# 9  LEST I BE FULL, AND DENY THEE, AND SAY, WHO IS THE LORD? OR LEST I BE POOR, AND STEAL, AND TAKE THE NAME OF MY GOD IN VAIN.
# 10  ACCUSE NOT A SERVANT UNTO HIS MASTER, LEST HE CURSE THEE, AND THOU BE FOUND GUILTY.
# 11  THERE IS A GENERATION THAT CURSETH THEIR FATHER, AND DOTH NOT BLESS THEIR MOTHER.
# 12  THERE IS A GENERATION THAT ARE PURE IN THEIR OWN EYES, AND YET IS NOT WASHED FROM THEIR FILTHINESS.
# 13  THERE IS A GENERATION, O HOW LOFTY ARE THEIR EYES! AND THEIR EYELIDS ARE LIFTED UP.
# 14  THERE IS A GENERATION, WHOSE TEETH ARE AS SWORDS, AND THEIR JAW TEETH AS KNIVES, TO DEVOUR THE POOR FROM OFF THE EARTH, AND
 THE NEEDY FROM AMONG MEN.
# 15  THE HORSELEACH HATH TWO DAUGHTERS, CRYING, GIVE, GIVE. THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT ARE NEVER SATISFIED, YEA, FOUR THINGS SA
Y NOT, IT IS ENOUGH:
# 16  THE GRAVE; AND THE BARREN WOMB; THE EARTH THAT IS NOT FILLED WITH WATER; AND THE FIRE THAT SAITH NOT, IT IS ENOUGH.
# 17  THE EYE THAT MOCKETH AT HIS FATHER, AND DESPISETH TO OBEY HIS MOTHER, THE RAVENS OF THE VALLEY SHALL PICK IT OUT, AND THE
 YOUNG EAGLES SHALL EAT IT.
# 18  THERE BE THREE THINGS WHICH ARE TOO WONDERFUL FOR ME, YEA, FOUR WHICH I KNOW NOT:
# 19  THE WAY OF AN EAGLE IN THE AIR; THE WAY OF A SERPENT UPON A ROCK; THE WAY OF A SHIP IN THE MIDST OF THE SEA; AND THE WAY OF
 A MAN WITH A MAID.
# 20  SUCH IS THE WAY OF AN ADULTEROUS WOMAN; SHE EATETH, AND WIPETH HER MOUTH, AND SAITH, I HAVE DONE NO WICKEDNESS.
# 21  FOR THREE THINGS THE EARTH IS DISQUIETED, AND FOR FOUR WHICH IT CANNOT BEAR:
# 22  FOR A SERVANT WHEN HE REIGNETH; AND A FOOL WHEN HE IS FILLED WITH MEAT;
# 23  FOR AN ODIOUS WOMAN WHEN SHE IS MARRIED; AND AN HANDMAID THAT IS HEIR TO HER MISTRESS.
# 24  THERE BE FOUR THINGS WHICH ARE LITTLE UPON THE EARTH, BUT THEY ARE EXCEEDING WISE:
# 25  THE ANTS ARE A PEOPLE NOT STRONG, YET THEY PREPARE THEIR MEAT IN THE SUMMER;
# 26  THE CONIES ARE BUT A FEEBLE FOLK, YET MAKE THEY THEIR HOUSES IN THE ROCKS;
# 27  THE LOCUSTS HAVE NO KING, YET GO THEY FORTH ALL OF THEM BY BANDS;
# 28  THE SPIDER TAKETH HOLD WITH HER HANDS, AND IS IN KINGS PALACES.
# 29  THERE BE THREE THINGS WHICH GO WELL, YEA, FOUR ARE COMELY IN GOING:
# 30  A LION WHICH IS STRONGEST AMONG BEASTS, AND TURNETH NOT AWAY FOR ANY;
# 31  A GREYHOUND; AN HE GOAT ALSO; AND A KING, AGAINST WHOM THERE IS NO RISING UP.
# 32  IF THOU HAST DONE FOOLISHLY IN LIFTING UP THYSELF, OR IF THOU HAST THOUGHT EVIL, LAY THINE HAND UPON THY MOUTH.
# 33  SURELY THE CHURNING OF MILK BRINGETH FORTH BUTTER, AND THE WRINGING OF THE NOSE BRINGETH FORTH BLOOD: SO THE FORCING OF WR
ATH BRINGETH FORTH STRIFE.
---- CHAPTER  31 
# 1 THE WORDS OF KING LEMUEL, THE PROPHECY THAT HIS MOTHER TAUGHT HIM.
# 2  WHAT, MY SON? AND WHAT, THE SON OF MY WOMB? AND WHAT, THE SON OF MY VOWS?
# 3  GIVE NOT THY STRENGTH UNTO WOMEN, NOR THY WAYS TO THAT WHICH DESTROYETH KINGS.
# 4  IT IS NOT FOR KINGS, O LEMUEL, IT IS NOT FOR KINGS TO DRINK WINE; NOR FOR PRINCES STRONG DRINK:
# 5  LEST THEY DRINK, AND FORGET THE LAW, AND PERVERT THE JUDGMENT OF ANY OF THE AFFLICTED.
# 6  GIVE STRONG DRINK UNTO HIM THAT IS READY TO PERISH, AND WINE UNTO THOSE THAT BE OF HEAVY HEARTS.
# 7  LET HIM DRINK, AND FORGET HIS POVERTY, AND REMEMBER HIS MISERY NO MORE.
# 8  OPEN THY MOUTH FOR THE DUMB IN THE CAUSE OF ALL SUCH AS ARE APPOINTED TO DESTRUCTION.
# 9  OPEN THY MOUTH, JUDGE RIGHTEOUSLY, AND PLEAD THE CAUSE OF THE POOR AND NEEDY.
# 10  WHO CAN FIND A VIRTUOUS WOMAN? FOR HER PRICE IS FAR ABOVE RUBIES.
# 11  THE HEART OF HER HUSBAND DOTH SAFELY TRUST IN HER, SO THAT HE SHALL HAVE NO NEED OF SPOIL.
# 12  SHE WILL DO HIM GOOD AND NOT EVIL ALL THE DAYS OF HER LIFE.
# 13  SHE SEEKETH WOOL, AND FLAX, AND WORKETH WILLINGLY WITH HER HANDS.
# 14  SHE IS LIKE THE MERCHANTS SHIPS; SHE BRINGETH HER FOOD FROM AFAR.
# 15  SHE RISETH ALSO WHILE IT IS YET NIGHT, AND GIVETH MEAT TO HER HOUSEHOLD, AND A PORTION TO HER MAIDENS.
# 16  SHE CONSIDERETH A FIELD, AND BUYETH IT: WITH THE FRUIT OF HER HANDS SHE PLANTETH A VINEYARD.
# 17  SHE GIRDETH HER LOINS WITH STRENGTH, AND STRENGTHENETH HER ARMS.
# 18  SHE PERCEIVETH THAT HER MERCHANDISE IS GOOD: HER CANDLE GOETH NOT OUT BY NIGHT.
# 19  SHE LAYETH HER HANDS TO THE SPINDLE, AND HER HANDS HOLD THE DISTAFF.
# 20  SHE STRETCHETH OUT HER HAND TO THE POOR; YEA, SHE REACHETH FORTH HER HANDS TO THE NEEDY.
# 21  SHE IS NOT AFRAID OF THE SNOW FOR HER HOUSEHOLD: FOR ALL HER HOUSEHOLD ARE CLOTHED WITH SCARLET.
# 22  SHE MAKETH HERSELF COVERINGS OF TAPESTRY; HER CLOTHING IS SILK AND PURPLE.
# 23  HER HUSBAND IS KNOWN IN THE GATES, WHEN HE SITTETH AMONG THE ELDERS OF THE LAND.
# 24  SHE MAKETH FINE LINEN, AND SELLETH IT; AND DELIVERETH GIRDLES UNTO THE MERCHANT.
# 25  STRENGTH AND HONOUR ARE HER CLOTHING; AND SHE SHALL REJOICE IN TIME TO COME.
# 26  SHE OPENETH HER MOUTH WITH WISDOM; AND IN HER TONGUE IS THE LAW OF KINDNESS.
# 27  SHE LOOKETH WELL TO THE WAYS OF HER HOUSEHOLD, AND EATETH NOT THE BREAD OF IDLENESS.
# 28  HER CHILDREN ARISE UP, AND CALL HER BLESSED; HER HUSBAND ALSO, AND HE PRAISETH HER.
# 29  MANY DAUGHTERS HAVE DONE VIRTUOUSLY, BUT THOU EXCELLEST THEM ALL.
# 30  FAVOUR IS DECEITFUL, AND BEAUTY IS VAIN: BUT A WOMAN THAT FEARETH THE LORD, SHE SHALL BE PRAISED.
# 31  GIVE HER OF THE FRUIT OF HER HANDS; AND LET HER OWN WORKS PRAISE HER IN THE GATES.