* BOOK20 PROVERBS
= 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.
# 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.
# 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.
# 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.
# 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.
# 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 TOWARD 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.
# 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, DOTH 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 EXPECTATION 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. 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 PRINCE 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.
# 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 GARMENT? 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 SAY 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 WRATH 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.
