Updated King James Version
2000 by Anonymous
Pro 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Pro 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
Pro 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Pro 1:4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Pro 1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Pro 1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Pro 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Pro 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
Pro 1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.
Pro 1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
Pro 1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause:
Pro 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Pro 1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Pro 1:14 Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Pro 1:15 My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
Pro 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Pro 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Pro 1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.
Pro 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof.
Pro 1:20 Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:
Pro 1:21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,
Pro 1:22 How long, all of you simple ones, will all of you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Pro 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Pro 1:24 Because I have called, and all of you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Pro 1:25 But all of you have set at nothing all my counsel, and refused my reproof:
Pro 1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;
Pro 1:27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.
Pro 1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Pro 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Pro 1:30 They refused my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Pro 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Pro 1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Pro 1:33 But whoso hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Pro 2:1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
Pro 2:2 So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Pro 2:3 Yea, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Pro 2:4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
Pro 2:5 Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Pro 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Pro 2:7 He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Pro 2:8 He keeps the paths of judgment, and perserves the way of his saints.
Pro 2:9 Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
Pro 2:10 When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto your soul;
Pro 2:11 Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:
Pro 2:12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks perverse things;
Pro 2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Pro 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of the wicked;
Pro 2:15 Whose ways are crooked, and they perverse in their paths:
Pro 2:16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;
Pro 2:17 Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.
Pro 2:18 For her house inclines unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Pro 2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Pro 2:20 That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
Pro 2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Pro 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Pro 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:
Pro 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you.
Pro 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them upon the table of your heart:
Pro 3:4 So shall you find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Pro 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all of your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding.
Pro 3:6 In all of your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
Pro 3:7 Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Pro 3:8 It shall be health to your navel, and marrow to your bones.
Pro 3:9 Honour the LORD with your substance, and with the first-fruits of all of your increase:
Pro 3:10 So shall your barns be filled with plenty, and your presses shall burst out with new wine.
Pro 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
Pro 3:12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
Pro 3:13 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.
Pro 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Pro 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared unto her.
Pro 3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Pro 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Pro 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retains her.
Pro 3:19 The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens.
Pro 3:20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Pro 3:21 My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Pro 3:22 So shall they be life unto your soul, and grace to your neck.
Pro 3:23 Then shall you walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble.
Pro 3:24 When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.
Pro 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes.
Pro 3:26 For the LORD shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being taken.
Pro 3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Pro 3:28 Say not unto your neighbour, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it by you.
Pro 3:29 Devise not evil against your neighbour, seeing he dwells securely by you.
Pro 3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done you no harm.
Pro 3:31 Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Pro 3:32 For the perverse is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
Pro 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesses the habitation of the just.
Pro 3:34 Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace unto the lowly.
Pro 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Pro 4:1 Hear, all of you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Pro 4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake all of you not my law.
Pro 4:3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Pro 4:4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Pro 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Pro 4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve you: love her, and she shall keep you.
Pro 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all of your getting get understanding.
Pro 4:8 Exalt her, and she shall promote you: she shall bring you to honour, when you do embrace her.
Pro 4:9 She shall give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to you.
Pro 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.
Pro 4:11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.
Pro 4:12 When you go, your steps shall not be straitened; and when you run, you shall not stumble.
Pro 4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.
Pro 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Pro 4:15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Pro 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Pro 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Pro 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day.
Pro 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Pro 4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline your ear unto my sayings.
Pro 4:21 Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.
Pro 4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Pro 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Pro 4:24 Put away from you a perverse mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.
Pro 4:25 Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.
Pro 4:26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all of your ways be established.
Pro 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.
Pro 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:
Pro 5:2 That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
Pro 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Pro 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Pro 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Pro 5:6 Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.
Pro 5:7 Hear me now therefore, O all of you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Pro 5:8 Remove your way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Pro 5:9 Lest you give your honour unto others, and your years unto the cruel:
Pro 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labours be in the house of a stranger;
Pro 5:11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
Pro 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Pro 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Pro 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Pro 5:15 Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
Pro 5:16 Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Pro 5:17 Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.
Pro 5:18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Pro 5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love.
Pro 5:20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Pro 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his activities.
Pro 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
Pro 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Pro 6:1 My son, if you be guarantor for your friend, if you have stricken your hand with a stranger,
Pro 6:2 You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.
Pro 6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you are come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.
Pro 6:4 Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
Pro 6:5 Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Pro 6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Pro 6:7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Pro 6:8 Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
Pro 6:9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?
Pro 6:10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Pro 6:11 So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your lack as an armed man.
Pro 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.
Pro 6:13 He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;
Pro 6:14 Perverseness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
Pro 6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Pro 6:16 These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Pro 6:19 A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.
Pro 6:20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:
Pro 6:21 Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them about your neck.
Pro 6:22 When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.
Pro 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Pro 6:24 To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Pro 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.
Pro 6:26 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.
Pro 6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Pro 6:28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Pro 6:29 So he that goes in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.
Pro 6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Pro 6:31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
Pro 6:32 But whoso commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.
Pro 6:33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Pro 6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Pro 6:35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
Pro 7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
Pro 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye.
Pro 7:3 Bind them upon your fingers, write them upon the table of your heart.
Pro 7:4 Say unto wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:
Pro 7:5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.
Pro 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Pro 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Pro 7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
Pro 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
Pro 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart.
Pro 7:11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
Pro 7:12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)
Pro 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an shameless face said unto him,
Pro 7:14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
Pro 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.
Pro 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Pro 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Pro 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Pro 7:19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Pro 7:20 He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
Pro 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Pro 7:22 He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Pro 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.
Pro 7:24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O all of you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Pro 7:25 Let not your heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Pro 7:26 For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Pro 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Pro 8:1 Does not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
Pro 8:2 She stands in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
Pro 8:3 She cries at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
Pro 8:4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Pro 8:5 O all of you simple, understand wisdom: and, all of you fools, be all of you of an understanding heart.
Pro 8:6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Pro 8:7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Pro 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing perverse or perverse in them.
Pro 8:9 They are all plain to him that understands, and right to them that find knowledge.
Pro 8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Pro 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Pro 8:12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Pro 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Pro 8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
Pro 8:15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Pro 8:16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
Pro 8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Pro 8:18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Pro 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
Pro 8:20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
Pro 8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
Pro 8:22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Pro 8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before even the earth was.
Pro 8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
Pro 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
Pro 8:26 While yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Pro 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Pro 8:28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
Pro 8:29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Pro 8:30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
Pro 8:31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
Pro 8:32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O all of you children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Pro 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Pro 8:34 Blessed is the man that hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Pro 8:35 For whoso finds me finds life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
Pro 8:36 But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Pro 9:1 Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars:
Pro 9:2 She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; she has also furnished her table.
Pro 9:3 She has sent forth her maidens: she cries upon the highest places of the city,
Pro 9:4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that wants understanding, she says to him,
Pro 9:5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Pro 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Pro 9:7 He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot.
Pro 9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
Pro 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Pro 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Pro 9:11 For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.
Pro 9:12 If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.
Pro 9:13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knows nothing.
Pro 9:14 For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Pro 9:15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Pro 9:16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him that wants understanding, she says to him,
Pro 9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Pro 9:18 But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guest are in the depths of hell.
Pro 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Pro 10:2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.
Pro 10:3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casts away the substance of the wicked.
Pro 10:4 He becomes poor that deals with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Pro 10:5 He that gathers in summer is a wise son: but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.
Pro 10:6 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Pro 10:7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Pro 10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a babbling fool shall fall.
Pro 10:9 He that walks uprightly walks surely: but he that perverts his ways shall be known.
Pro 10:10 He that winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a babbling fool shall fall.
Pro 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Pro 10:12 Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins.
Pro 10:13 In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Pro 10:14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Pro 10:15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Pro 10:16 The labour of the righteous tends to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
Pro 10:17 He is in the way of life that keeps instruction: but he that refuses reproof errs.
Pro 10:18 He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.
Pro 10:19 In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.
Pro 10:20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
Pro 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for lack of wisdom.
Pro 10:22 The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
Pro 10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding has wisdom.
Pro 10:24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Pro 10:25 As the whirlwind passes, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Pro 10:26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Pro 10:27 The fear of the LORD prolongs days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Pro 10:28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Pro 10:29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Pro 10:30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
Pro 10:31 The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.
Pro 10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaks perverseness.
Pro 11:1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Pro 11:2 When pride comes, then comes shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Pro 11:3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Pro 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivers from death.
Pro 11:5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Pro 11:6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
Pro 11:7 When a wicked man dies, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perishes.
Pro 11:8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his position.
Pro 11:9 An hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Pro 11:10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
Pro 11:11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Pro 11:12 He that is void of wisdom despises his neighbour: but a man of understanding holds his peace.
Pro 11:13 A talebearer reveals secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit conceals the matter.
Pro 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Pro 11:15 He that is guarantor for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hates standing for surety is sure.
Pro 11:16 A gracious woman retains honour: and strong men retain riches.
Pro 11:17 The merciful man does good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Pro 11:18 The wicked works a deceitful work: but to him that sows righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Pro 11:19 As righteousness tends to life: so he that pursues evil pursues it to his own death.
Pro 11:20 They that are of a perverse heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
Pro 11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Pro 11:22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Pro 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Pro 11:24 There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds more than is meet, but it tends to poverty.
Pro 11:25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that waters shall be watered also himself.
Pro 11:26 He that withholds corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that sells it.
Pro 11:27 He that diligently seeks good procures favour: but he that seeks mischief, it shall come unto him.
Pro 11:28 He that trusts in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Pro 11:29 He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Pro 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins souls is wise.
Pro 11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Pro 12:1 Whoso loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is brutish.
Pro 12:2 A good man obtains favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
Pro 12:3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Pro 12:4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Pro 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Pro 12:6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Pro 12:7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Pro 12:8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
Pro 12:9 He that is despised, and has a servant, is better than he that honors himself, and lacks bread.
Pro 12:10 A righteous man regards the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Pro 12:11 He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding.
Pro 12:12 The wicked desires the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yields fruit.
Pro 12:13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Pro 12:14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
Pro 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkens unto counsel is wise.
Pro 12:16 A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covers shame.
Pro 12:17 He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
Pro 12:18 There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Pro 12:19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Pro 12:20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Pro 12:21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
Pro 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Pro 12:23 A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
Pro 12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Pro 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop: but a good word makes it glad.
Pro 12:26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduces them.
Pro 12:27 The slothful man roasts not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
Pro 12:28 In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Pro 13:1 A wise son hears his father's instruction: but a scorner hears not rebuke.
Pro 13:2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
Pro 13:3 He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
Pro 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Pro 13:5 A righteous man hates lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame.
Pro 13:6 Righteousness keeps him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Pro 13:7 There is that makes himself rich, yet has nothing: there is that makes himself poor, yet has great riches.
Pro 13:8 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor hears not rebuke.
Pro 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoices: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Pro 13:10 Only by pride comes contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Pro 13:11 Wealth got by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labour shall increase.
Pro 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
Pro 13:13 Whoso despises the word shall be destroyed: but he that fears the commandment shall be rewarded.
Pro 13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Pro 13:15 Good understanding gives favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Pro 13:16 Every prudent man deals with knowledge: but a fool lays open his folly.
Pro 13:17 A wicked messenger falls into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Pro 13:18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuses instruction: but he that regards reproof shall be honoured.
Pro 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Pro 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Pro 13:21 Evil pursues sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repaid.
Pro 13:22 A good man left an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Pro 13:23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for lack of judgment.
Pro 13:24 He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.
Pro 13:25 The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall lack.
Pro 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.
Pro 14:2 He that walks in his uprightness fears the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despises him.
Pro 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Pro 14:4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
Pro 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Pro 14:6 A scorner seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understands.
Pro 14:7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive not in him the lips of knowledge.
Pro 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Pro 14:9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
Pro 14:10 The heart knows his own bitterness; and a stranger does not intermeddle with his joy.
Pro 14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
Pro 14:12 There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Pro 14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that delight is heaviness.
Pro 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Pro 14:15 The simple believes every word: but the prudent man looks well to his going.
Pro 14:16 A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
Pro 14:17 He that is soon angry deals foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Pro 14:18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Pro 14:19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
Pro 14:20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich has many friends.
Pro 14:21 He that despises his neighbour sins: but he that has mercy on the poor, happy is he.
Pro 14:22 Do they not go astray that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
Pro 14:23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tends only to destitution.
Pro 14:24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
Pro 14:25 A true witness delivers souls: but a deceitful witness speaks lies.
Pro 14:26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
Pro 14:27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Pro 14:28 In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
Pro 14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
Pro 14:30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Pro 14:31 He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.
Pro 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.
Pro 14:33 Wisdom rests in the heart of him that has understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
Pro 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
Pro 14:35 The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causes shame.
Pro 15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Pro 15:2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.
Pro 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Pro 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Pro 15:5 A fool despises his father's instruction: but he that regards reproof is prudent.
Pro 15:6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
Pro 15:7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish does not so.
Pro 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Pro 15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loves him that follows after righteousness.
Pro 15:10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsakes the way: and he that hates reproof shall die.
Pro 15:11 Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
Pro 15:12 A scorner loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Pro 15:13 A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Pro 15:14 The heart of him that has understanding seeks knowledge: but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.
Pro 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart has a continual feast.
Pro 15:16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Pro 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Pro 15:18 A wrathful man stirs up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeases strife.
Pro 15:19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Pro 15:20 A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish man despises his mother.
Pro 15:21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walks uprightly.
Pro 15:22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Pro 15:23 A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Pro 15:24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Pro 15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Pro 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
Pro 15:27 He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates gifts shall live.
Pro 15:28 The heart of the righteous studies to answer: but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
Pro 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Pro 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart: and a good report makes the bones fat.
Pro 15:31 The ear that hears the reproof of life abides among the wise.
Pro 15:32 He that refuses instruction despises his own soul: but he that hears reproof gets understanding.
Pro 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
Pro 16:1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Pro 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weights the spirits.
Pro 16:3 Commit your works unto the LORD, and your thoughts shall be established.
Pro 16:4 The LORD has made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Pro 16:5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Pro 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
Pro 16:7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Pro 16:8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Pro 16:9 A man's heart devises his way: but the LORD directs his steps.
Pro 16:10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth trangresses not in judgment.
Pro 16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Pro 16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
Pro 16:13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaks right.
Pro 16:14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Pro 16:15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
Pro 16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Pro 16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keeps his way perserves his soul.
Pro 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Pro 16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Pro 16:20 He that handles a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusts in the LORD, happy is he.
Pro 16:21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.
Pro 16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
Pro 16:23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
Pro 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Pro 16:25 There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Pro 16:26 He that labours labours for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.
Pro 16:27 An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Pro 16:28 A perverse man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends.
Pro 16:29 A violent man entices his neighbour, and leads him into the way that is not good.
Pro 16:30 He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things: moving his lips he brings evil to pass.
Pro 16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Pro 16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city.
Pro 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Pro 17:1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Pro 17:2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
Pro 17:3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.
Pro 17:4 A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear to a naughty tongue.
Pro 17:5 Whoso mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Pro 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Pro 17:7 Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
Pro 17:8 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that has it: anywhere it turns, it prospers.
Pro 17:9 He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.
Pro 17:10 A reproof enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Pro 17:11 An evil man seeks only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
Pro 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Pro 17:13 Whoso rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Pro 17:14 The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Pro 17:15 He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
Pro 17:16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no heart to it?
Pro 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Pro 17:18 A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes guarantor in the presence of his friend.
Pro 17:19 He loves transgression that loves strife: and he that exalts his gate seeks destruction.
Pro 17:20 He that has a perverse heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.
Pro 17:21 He that bring forths a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.
Pro 17:22 A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.
Pro 17:23 A wicked man takes a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Pro 17:24 Wisdom is before him that has understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Pro 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Pro 17:26 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.
Pro 17:27 He that has knowledge spares his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Pro 17:28 Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Pro 18:1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddles with all wisdom.
Pro 18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Pro 18:3 When the wicked comes, then comes also contempt, and with dishonour reproach.
Pro 18:4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
Pro 18:5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Pro 18:6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for strokes.
Pro 18:7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Pro 18:8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Pro 18:9 He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great destroyer.
Pro 18:10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runs into it, and is safe.
Pro 18:11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
Pro 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Pro 18:13 He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Pro 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Pro 18:15 The heart of the prudent gets knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Pro 18:16 A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
Pro 18:17 He that is first in his own cause seems just; but his neighbour comes and searches him.
Pro 18:18 The lot causes contentions to cease, and parts between the mighty.
Pro 18:19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Pro 18:20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
Pro 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Pro 18:22 Whoso finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favour of the LORD.
Pro 18:23 The poor uses entreaties; but the rich answers roughly.
Pro 18:24 A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
Pro 19:1 Better is the poor that walks in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Pro 19:2 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hastes with his feet sins.
Pro 19:3 The foolishness of man perverts his way: and his heart frets against the LORD.
Pro 19:4 Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Pro 19:5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall not escape.
Pro 19:6 Many will implore the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that gives gifts.
Pro 19:7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursues them with words, yet they are lacking to him.
Pro 19:8 He that gets wisdom loves his own soul: he that keeps understanding shall find good.
Pro 19:9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.
Pro 19:10 Delight is not suitable for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Pro 19:11 The discretion of a man defers his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Pro 19:12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Pro 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Pro 19:14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Pro 19:15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Pro 19:16 He that keeps the commandment keeps his own soul; but he that despises his ways shall die.
Pro 19:17 He that has pity upon the poor lends unto the LORD; and that which he has given will he pay him again.
Pro 19:18 Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.
Pro 19:19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if you deliver him, yet you must do it again.
Pro 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Pro 19:21 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
Pro 19:22 The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
Pro 19:23 The fear of the LORD tends to life: and he that has it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
Pro 19:24 A slothful man hides his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Pro 19:25 Strike a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Pro 19:26 He that wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings reproach.
Pro 19:27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to go astray from the words of knowledge.
Pro 19:28 An ungodly witness scorns judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
Pro 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Pro 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Pro 20:2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
Pro 20:3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Pro 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Pro 20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Pro 20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
Pro 20:7 The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
Pro 20:8 A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
Pro 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Pro 20:10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Pro 20:11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Pro 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.
Pro 20:13 Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Pro 20:14 It is nil, it is nil, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Pro 20:15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Pro 20:16 Take his garment that is guarantor for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Pro 20:17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Pro 20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Pro 20:19 He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.
Pro 20:20 Whoso curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Pro 20:21 An inheritance may be got hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Pro 20:22 Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.
Pro 20:23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Pro 20:24 Man's activities are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
Pro 20:25 It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
Pro 20:26 A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.
Pro 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Pro 20:28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne supported by mercy.
Pro 20:29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
Pro 20:30 The blueness of a wound cleanses away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
Pro 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it anywhere he will.
Pro 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD ponders the hearts.
Pro 21:3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Pro 21:4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
Pro 21:5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to lack.
Pro 21:6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed back and forth of them that seek death.
Pro 21:7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
Pro 21:8 The way of man is perverse and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
Pro 21:9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Pro 21:10 The soul of the wicked desires evil: his neighbour finds no favour in his eyes.
Pro 21:11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
Pro 21:12 The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked: but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.
Pro 21:13 Whoso stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Pro 21:14 A gift in secret pacifies anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Pro 21:15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Pro 21:16 The man that wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Pro 21:17 He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
Pro 21:18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Pro 21:19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Pro 21:20 There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spends it up.
Pro 21:21 He that follows after righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness, and honour.
Pro 21:22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and casts down the strength of the confidence thereof.
Pro 21:23 Whoso keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
Pro 21:24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who deals in proud wrath.
Pro 21:25 The desire of the slothful kills him; for his hands refuse to labour.
Pro 21:26 He covers greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives and spares not.
Pro 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind?
Pro 21:28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that hears speaks constantly.
Pro 21:29 A wicked man hardens his face: but as for the upright, he directs his way.
Pro 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Pro 21:31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.
Pro 22:1 A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Pro 22:2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
Pro 22:3 A prudent man forsees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Pro 22:4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
Pro 22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that does keep his soul shall be far from them.
Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Pro 22:7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Pro 22:8 He that sows iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Pro 22:9 He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor.
Pro 22:10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
Pro 22:11 He that loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
Pro 22:12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor.
Pro 22:13 The slothful man says, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Pro 22:14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Pro 22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Pro 22:16 He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to lack.
Pro 22:17 Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart unto my knowledge.
Pro 22:18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall likewise be fitted in your lips.
Pro 22:19 That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to you this day, even to you.
Pro 22:20 Have not I written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Pro 22:21 That I might make you know the certainty of the words of truth; that you might answer the words of truth to them that send unto you?
Pro 22:22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Pro 22:23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Pro 22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go:
Pro 22:25 Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul.
Pro 22:26 Be not you one of them that shake hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Pro 22:27 If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
Pro 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.
Pro 22:29 See you a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Pro 23:1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
Pro 23:2 And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.
Pro 23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.
Pro 23:4 Labour not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
Pro 23:5 Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Pro 23:6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
Pro 23:7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
Pro 23:8 The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.
Pro 23:9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Pro 23:10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Pro 23:11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
Pro 23:12 Apply your heart unto instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
Pro 23:13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
Pro 23:14 You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.
Pro 23:15 My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Pro 23:16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
Pro 23:17 Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Pro 23:18 For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
Pro 23:19 Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
Pro 23:20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Pro 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Pro 23:22 Hearken unto your father that brings forth you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
Pro 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Pro 23:24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that bring forths a wise child shall have joy of him.
Pro 23:25 Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bare you shall rejoice.
Pro 23:26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
Pro 23:27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Pro 23:28 She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
Pro 23:29 Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
Pro 23:30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Pro 23:31 Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives his colour in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
Pro 23:32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
Pro 23:33 your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things.
Pro 23:34 Yea, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.
Pro 23:35 They have stricken me, shall you 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.
Pro 24:1 Be not you envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Pro 24:2 For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Pro 24:3 Through wisdom is an house built; and by understanding it is established:
Pro 24:4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Pro 24:5 A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increases strength.
Pro 24:6 For by wise counsel you shall make your war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Pro 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he opens not his mouth in the gate.
Pro 24:8 He that devises to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
Pro 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Pro 24:10 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
Pro 24:11 If you forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
Pro 24:12 If you says, Behold, we knew it not; does not he that ponders the heart consider it? and he that keeps your soul, does not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Pro 24:13 My son, eat you honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste:
Pro 24:14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your expectation shall not be cut off.
Pro 24:15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Pro 24:16 For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Pro 24:17 Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles:
Pro 24:18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Pro 24:19 Fret not yourself because of evil men, neither be you envious at the wicked:
Pro 24:20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
Pro 24:21 My son, fear you the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
Pro 24:22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knows the ruin of them both?
Pro 24:23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Pro 24:24 He that says unto the wicked, You are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall detest him:
Pro 24:25 But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
Pro 24:26 Every man shall kiss his lips that gives a right answer.
Pro 24:27 Prepare your work without, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.
Pro 24:28 Be not a witness against your neighbour without cause; and deceive not with your lips.
Pro 24:29 Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
Pro 24:30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Pro 24:31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Pro 24:32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
Pro 24:33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Pro 24:34 So shall your poverty come as one that travels; and your lack as an armed man.
Pro 25:1 These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Pro 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Pro 25:3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
Pro 25:4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
Pro 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Pro 25:6 Put not forth yourself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
Pro 25:7 For better it is that it be said unto you, Come up here; than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince whom your eyes have seen.
Pro 25:8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest you know not what to do in the end thereof, when your neighbour has put you to shame.
Pro 25:9 Debate your cause with your neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:
Pro 25:10 Lest he that hears it put you to shame, and your ill repute turn not away.
Pro 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Pro 25:12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
Pro 25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refreshes the soul of his masters.
Pro 25:14 Whoso boasts himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
Pro 25:15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.
Pro 25:16 Have you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Pro 25:17 Withdraw your foot from your neighbour's house; lest he be weary of you, and so hate you.
Pro 25:18 A man that bears false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Pro 25:19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Pro 25:20 As he that takes away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon alkali, so is he that sings songs to an heavy heart.
Pro 25:21 If your enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
Pro 25:22 For you shall heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward you.
Pro 25:23 The north wind drives away rain: so does an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Pro 25:24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
Pro 25:25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Pro 25:26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Pro 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Pro 25:28 He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Pro 26:1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not suitable for a fool.
Pro 26:2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
Pro 26:3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
Pro 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like unto him.
Pro 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Pro 26:6 He that sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off the feet, and drinks damage.
Pro 26:7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Pro 26:8 As he that binds a stone in a sling, so is he that gives honour to a fool.
Pro 26:9 As a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools.
Pro 26:10 The great God that formed all things both rewards the fool, and rewards transgressors.
Pro 26:11 As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.
Pro 26:12 See you a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Pro 26:13 The slothful man says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Pro 26:14 As the door turns upon his hinges, so does the slothful upon his bed.
Pro 26:15 The slothful hides his hand in his bosom; it grieves him to bring it again to his mouth.
Pro 26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Pro 26:17 He that passes by, and meddles with strife belonging not to him, is like one that takes a dog by the ears.
Pro 26:18 As a mad man who casts firebrands, arrows, and death,
Pro 26:19 So is the man that deceives his neighbour, and says, Am not I in sport?
Pro 26:20 Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.
Pro 26:21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Pro 26:22 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Pro 26:23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Pro 26:24 He that hates dissembles with his lips, and lays up deceit within him;
Pro 26:25 When he speaks fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Pro 26:26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be showed before the whole congregation.
Pro 26:27 Whoso digs a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolls a stone, it will return upon him.
Pro 26:28 A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Pro 27:1 Boast not yourself of tomorrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.
Pro 27:2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Pro 27:3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Pro 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Pro 27:5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Pro 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Pro 27:7 The full soul loathes an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Pro 27:8 As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place.
Pro 27:9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Pro 27:10 your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Pro 27:11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproaches me.
Pro 27:12 A prudent man forsees the evil, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Pro 27:13 Take his garment that is guarantor for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Pro 27:14 He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
Pro 27:15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Pro 27:16 Whosoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which betrayed itself.
Pro 27:17 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
Pro 27:18 Whoso keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waits on his master shall be honoured.
Pro 27:19 As in water face answers to face, so the heart of man to man.
Pro 27:20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Pro 27:21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
Pro 27:22 Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Pro 27:23 Be you diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.
Pro 27:24 For riches are not for ever: and does the crown endure to every generation?
Pro 27:25 The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
Pro 27:26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
Pro 27:27 And you shall have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidens.
Pro 28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursues: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Pro 28:2 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.
Pro 28:3 A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which left no food.
Pro 28:4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Pro 28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
Pro 28:6 Better is the poor that walks in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Pro 28:7 Whoso keeps the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shames his father.
Pro 28:8 He that by interest and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Pro 28:9 He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
Pro 28:10 Whoso causes 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.
Pro 28:11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that has understanding searches him out.
Pro 28:12 When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Pro 28:13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.
Pro 28:14 Happy is the man that fears always: but he that hardens his heart shall fall into mischief.
Pro 28:15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Pro 28:16 The prince that wants understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hates covetousness shall prolong his days.
Pro 28:17 A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
Pro 28:18 Whoso walks uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Pro 28:19 He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Pro 28:20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Pro 28:21 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
Pro 28:22 He that hastes to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that poverty shall come upon him.
Pro 28:23 He that rebukes a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flatters with the tongue.
Pro 28:24 Whoso robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Pro 28:25 He that is of a proud heart stirs up strife: but he that puts his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
Pro 28:26 He that trusts in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walks wisely, he shall be delivered.
Pro 28:27 He that gives unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hides his eyes shall have many a curse.
Pro 28:28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Pro 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Pro 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bears rule, the people mourn.
Pro 29:3 Whoso loves wisdom rejoices his father: but he that keeps company with harlots spends his substance.
Pro 29:4 The king by judgment establishes the land: but he that receives gifts overthrows it.
Pro 29:5 A man that flatters his neighbour spreads a net for his feet.
Pro 29:6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous does sing and rejoice.
Pro 29:7 The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not to know it.
Pro 29:8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Pro 29:9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
Pro 29:10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
Pro 29:11 A fool utters all his mind: but a wise man keeps it in till afterwards.
Pro 29:12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Pro 29:13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lightens both their eyes.
Pro 29:14 The king that faithfully judges the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
Pro 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame.
Pro 29:16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increases: but the righteous shall see their fall.
Pro 29:17 Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul.
Pro 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he.
Pro 29:19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
Pro 29:20 See you a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Pro 29:21 He that delicately brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
Pro 29:22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.
Pro 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Pro 29:24 Whoso is partner with a thief hates his own soul: he hears cursing, and betrayed it not.
Pro 29:25 The fear of man brings a snare: but whoso puts his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
Pro 29:26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment comes from the LORD.
Pro 29:27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
Pro 30:1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,
Pro 30:2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
Pro 30:3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
Pro 30:4 Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? who has gathered the wind in his fists? who has bound the waters in a garment? who has established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you can tell?
Pro 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Pro 30:6 Add you not unto his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
Pro 30:7 Two things have I required of you; deny me them not before I die:
Pro 30:8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Pro 30:9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Pro 30:10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.
Pro 30:11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
Pro 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Pro 30:13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Pro 30:14 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.
Pro 30:15 The horseleach has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
Pro 30:16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that says not, It is enough.
Pro 30:17 The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Pro 30:18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
Pro 30:19 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.
Pro 30:20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.
Pro 30:21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
Pro 30:22 For a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with food;
Pro 30:23 For an abhorrent woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Pro 30:24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
Pro 30:25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;
Pro 30:26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
Pro 30:27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
Pro 30:28 The spider takes hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
Pro 30:29 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
Pro 30:30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turns not away for any;
Pro 30:31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
Pro 30:32 If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.
Pro 30:33 Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood: so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.
Pro 31:1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
Pro 31:2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
Pro 31:3 Give not your strength unto women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
Pro 31:4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Pro 31:5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Pro 31:6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Pro 31:7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Pro 31:8 Open your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Pro 31:9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Pro 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Pro 31:11 The heart of her husband does safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Pro 31:12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Pro 31:13 She seeks wool, and flax, and works willingly with her hands.
Pro 31:14 She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from far.
Pro 31:15 She rises also while it is yet night, and gives food to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Pro 31:16 She considers a field, and buys it: with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
Pro 31:17 She girds her loins with strength, and strengthens her arms.
Pro 31:18 She perceives that her merchandise is good: her candle goes not out by night.
Pro 31:19 She lays her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
Pro 31:20 She stretches out her hand to the poor; yea, she reachs forth her hands to the needy.
Pro 31:21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Pro 31:22 She makes herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
Pro 31:23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.
Pro 31:24 She makes fine linen, and sells it; and delivers girdles unto the merchant.
Pro 31:25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
Pro 31:26 She opens her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Pro 31:27 She looks well to the ways of her household, and eats not the bread of idleness.
Pro 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.
Pro 31:29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but you excel them all.
Pro 31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
Pro 31:31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
