1:1  The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
 1:2  To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of
understanding;
 1:3  To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and
judgment, and equity;
 1:4  To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man
knowledge and discretion.
 1:5  A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a
man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
 1:6  To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the
words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
 1:7  The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge:
[but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
 1:8  My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake
not the law of thy mother:
 1:9  For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head,
and chains about thy neck.
 1:10  My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
 1:11  If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,
let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
 1:12  Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as
those that go down into the pit:
 1:13  We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our
houses with spoil:
 1:14  Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
 1:15  My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy
foot from their path:
 1:16  For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed
blood.
 1:17  Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any
bird.
 1:18  And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk
privily for their [own] lives.
 1:19  So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain;
[which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
 1:20  Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the
streets:
 1:21  She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the
openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words,
[saying],
 1:22  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and
the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate
knowledge?
 1:23  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my
spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
 1:24  Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched
out my hand, and no man regarded;
 1:25  But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none
of my reproof:
 1:26  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when
your fear cometh;
 1:27  When your fear cometh as desolation, and your
destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish
cometh upon you.
 1:28  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;
they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
 1:29  For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the
fear of the LORD:
 1:30  They would none of my counsel: they despised all my
reproof.
 1:31  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,
and be filled with their own devices.
 1:32  For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and
the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
 1:33  But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and
shall be quiet from fear of evil.
 2:1  My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my
commandments with thee;
 2:2  So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply
thine heart to understanding;
 2:3  Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy
voice for understanding;
 2:4  If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as
[for] hid treasures;
 2:5  Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find
the knowledge of God.
 2:6  For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh]
knowledge and understanding.
 2:7  He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a
buckler to them that walk uprightly.
 2:8  He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way
of his saints.
 2:9  Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment,
and equity; [yea], every good path.
 2:10  When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is
pleasant unto thy soul;
 2:11  Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep
thee:
 2:12  To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the
man that speaketh froward things;
 2:13  Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways
of darkness;
 2:14  Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness
of the wicked;
 2:15  Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their
paths:
 2:16  To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the
stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
 2:17  Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth
the covenant of her God.
 2:18  For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto
the dead.
 2:19  None that go unto her return again, neither take they
hold of the paths of life.
 2:20  That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep
the paths of the righteous.
 2:21  For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect
shall remain in it.
 2:22  But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the
transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
 3:1  My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my
commandments:
 3:2  For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they
add to thee.
 3:3  Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy
neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
 3:4  So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the
sight of God and man.
 3:5  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto
thine own understanding.
 3:6  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy
paths.
 3:7  Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart
from evil.
 3:8  It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
 3:9  Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the
firstfruits of all thine increase:
 3:10  So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy
presses shall burst out with new wine.
 3:11  My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither
be weary of his correction:
 3:12  For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father
the son [in whom] he delighteth.
 3:13  Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man
[that] getteth understanding.
 3:14  For the merchandise of it [is] better than the
merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
 3:15  She [is] more precious than rubies: and all the things
thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
 3:16  Length of days [is] in her right hand; [and] in her left
hand riches and honour.
 3:17  Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths
[are] peace.
 3:18  She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her:
and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.
 3:19  The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by
understanding hath he established the heavens.
 3:20  By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the
clouds drop down the dew.
 3:21  My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound
wisdom and discretion:
 3:22  So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy
neck.
 3:23  Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot
shall not stumble.
 3:24  When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea,
thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
 3:25  Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation
of the wicked, when it cometh.
 3:26  For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy
foot from being taken.
 3:27  Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it
is in the power of thine hand to do [it].
 3:28  Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to
morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
 3:29  Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he
dwelleth securely by thee.
 3:30  Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done
thee no harm.
 3:31  Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his
ways.
 3:32  For the froward [is] abomination to the LORD: but his
secret [is] with the righteous.
 3:33  The curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the wicked:
but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
 3:34  Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace
unto the lowly.
 3:35  The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the
promotion of fools.
 4:1  Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and
attend to know understanding.
 4:2  For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
 4:3  For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in
the sight of my mother.
 4:4  He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart
retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
 4:5  Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither
decline from the words of my mouth.
 4:6  Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her,
and she shall keep thee.
 4:7  Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom:
and with all thy getting get understanding.
 4:8  Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring
thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
 4:9  She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a
crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
 4:10  Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of
thy life shall be many.
 4:11  I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee
in right paths.
 4:12  When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and
when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
 4:13  Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep
her; for she [is] thy life.
 4:14  Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the
way of evil [men].
 4:15  Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
 4:16  For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and
their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.
 4:17  For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine
of violence.
 4:18  But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that
shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
 4:19  The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at
what they stumble.
 4:20  My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my
sayings.
 4:21  Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the
midst of thine heart.
 4:22  For they [are] life unto those that find them, and
health to all their flesh.
 4:23  Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are]
the issues of life.
 4:24  Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips
put far from thee.
 4:25  Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look
straight before thee.
 4:26  Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be
established.
 4:27  Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy
foot from evil.
 5:1  My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my
understanding:
 5:2  That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips
may keep knowledge.
 5:3  For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb,
and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
 5:4  But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged
sword.
 5:5  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
 5:6  Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are
moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].
 5:7  Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from
the words of my mouth.
 5:8  Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door
of her house:
 5:9  Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years
unto the cruel:
 5:10  Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy
labours [be] in the house of a stranger;
 5:11  And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body
are consumed,
 5:12  And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart
despised reproof;
 5:13  And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor
inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
 5:14  I was almost in all evil in the midst of the
congregation and assembly.
 5:15  Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running
waters out of thine own well.
 5:16  Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of
waters in the streets.
 5:17  Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with
thee.
 5:18  Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife
of thy youth.
 5:19  [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.
 5:20  And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange
woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
 5:21  For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD,
and he pondereth all his goings.
 5:22  His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he
shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
 5:23  He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness
of his folly he shall go astray.
 6:1  My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast
stricken thy hand with a stranger,
 6:2  Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art
taken with the words of thy mouth.
 6:3  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.
 6:4  Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine
eyelids.
 6:5  Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter],
and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
 6:6  Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be
wise:
 6:7  Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
 6:8  Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her
food in the harvest.
 6:9  How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou
arise out of thy sleep?
 6:10  [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding
of the hands to sleep:
 6:11  So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and
thy want as an armed man.
 6:12  A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward
mouth.
 6:13  He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he
teacheth with his fingers;
 6:14  Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief
continually; he soweth discord.
 6:15  Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly
shall he be broken without remedy.
 6:16  These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are]
an abomination unto him:
 6:17  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed
innocent blood,
 6:18  An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be
swift in running to mischief,
 6:19  A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth
discord among brethren.
 6:20  My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not
the law of thy mother:
 6:21  Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them
about thy neck.
 6:22  When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest,
it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with
thee.
 6:23  For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light;
and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
 6:24  To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of
the tongue of a strange woman.
 6:25  Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let
her take thee with her eyelids.
 6:26  For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a
piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious
life.
 6:27  Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be
burned?
 6:28  Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
 6:29  So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever
toucheth her shall not be innocent.
 6:30  [Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his
soul when he is hungry;
 6:31  But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he
shall give all the substance of his house.
 6:32  [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh
understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
 6:33  A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach
shall not be wiped away.
 6:34  For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will
not spare in the day of vengeance.
 6:35  He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest
content, though thou givest many gifts.
 7:1  My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with
thee.
 7:2  Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple
of thine eye.
 7:3  Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of
thine heart.
 7:4  Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call
understanding [thy] kinswoman:
 7:5  That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the
stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
 7:6  For at the window of my house I looked through my
casement,
 7:7  And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the
youths, a young man void of understanding,
 7:8  Passing through the street near her corner; and he went
the way to her house,
 7:9  In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark
night:
 7:10  And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of
an harlot, and subtle of heart.
 7:11  (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her
house:
 7:12  Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in
wait at every corner.)
 7:13  So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an
impudent face said unto him,
 7:14  [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed
my vows.
 7:15  Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek
thy face, and I have found thee.
 7:16  I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with
carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt.
 7:17  I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
 7:18  Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning:
let us solace ourselves with loves.
 7:19  For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long
journey:
 7:20  He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come
home at the day appointed.
 7:21  With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with
the flattering of her lips she forced him.
 7:22  He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the
slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
 7:23  Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth
to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.
 7:24  Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend
to the words of my mouth.
 7:25  Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray
in her paths.
 7:26  For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong
[men] have been slain by her.
 7:27  Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the
chambers of death.
 8:1  Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her
voice?
 8:2  She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the
places of the paths.
 8:3  She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the
coming in at the doors.
 8:4  Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice [is] to the sons of
man.
 8:5  O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of
an understanding heart.
 8:6  Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the
opening of my lips [shall be] right things.
 8:7  For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness [is] an
abomination to my lips.
 8:8  All the words of my mouth [are] in righteousness; [there
is] nothing froward or perverse in them.
 8:9  They [are] all plain to him that understandeth, and right
to them that find knowledge.
 8:10  Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge
rather than choice gold.
 8:11  For wisdom [is] better than rubies; and all the things
that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
 8:12  I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of
witty inventions.
 8:13  The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and
arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
 8:14  Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am]
understanding; I have strength.
 8:15  By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
 8:16  By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges of
the earth.
 8:17  I love them that love me; and those that seek me early
shall find me.
 8:18  Riches and honour [are] with me; [yea], durable riches
and righteousness.
 8:19  My fruit [is] better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and
my revenue than choice silver.
 8:20  I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the
paths of judgment:
 8:21  That I may cause those that love me to inherit
substance; and I will fill their treasures.
 8:22  The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way,
before his works of old.
 8:23  I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or
ever the earth was.
 8:24  When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth; when
[there were] no fountains abounding with water.
 8:25  Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was
I brought forth:
 8:26  While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,
nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
 8:27  When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set
a compass upon the face of the depth:
 8:28  When he established the clouds above: when he
strengthened the fountains of the deep:
 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:
 8:30  Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and I
was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him;
 8:31  Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my
delights [were] with the sons of men.
 8:32  Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for
blessed [are they that] keep my ways.
 8:33  Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
 8:34  Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily at
my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
 8:35  For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain
favour of the LORD.
 8:36  But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul:
all they that hate me love death.
 9:1  Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her
seven pillars:
 9:2  She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine;
she hath also furnished her table.
 9:3  She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the
highest places of the city,
 9:4  Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him
that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
 9:5  Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine [which] I
have mingled.
 9:6  Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of
understanding.
 9:7  He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and
he that rebuketh a wicked [man getteth] himself a blot.
 9:8  Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise
man, and he will love thee.
 9:9  Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet
wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.
 9:10  The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and
the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding.
 9:11  For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of
thy life shall be increased.
 9:12  If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but
[if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].
 9:13  A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and
knoweth nothing.
 9:14  For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in
the high places of the city,
 9:15  To call passengers who go right on their ways:
 9:16  Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for]
him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
 9:17  Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is
pleasant.
 9:18  But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that]
her guests [are] in the depths of hell.
 10:1  The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad
father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother.
 10:2  Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but
righteousness delivereth from death.
 10:3  The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to
famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
 10:4  He becometh poor that dealeth [with] a slack hand: but
the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
 10:5  He that gathereth in summer [is] a wise son: [but] he
that sleepeth in harvest [is] a son that causeth shame.
 10:6  Blessings [are] upon the head of the just: but violence
covereth the mouth of the wicked.
 10:7  The memory of the just [is] blessed: but the name of the
wicked shall rot.
 10:8  The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a
prating fool shall fall.
 10:9  He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that
perverteth his ways shall be known.
 10:10  He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a
prating fool shall fall.
 10:11  The mouth of a righteous [man is] a well of life: but
violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
 10:12  Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
 10:13  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.
 10:14  Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the
foolish [is] near destruction.
 10:15  The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city: the
destruction of the poor [is] their poverty.
 10:16  The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to life: the
fruit of the wicked to sin.
 10:17  He [is in] the way of life that keepeth instruction:
but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
 10:18  He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that
uttereth a slander, [is] a fool.
 10:19  In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he
that refraineth his lips [is] wise.
 10:20  The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart
of the wicked [is] little worth.
 10:21  The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for
want of wisdom.
 10:22  The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth
no sorrow with it.
 10:23  [It is] as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of
understanding hath wisdom.
 10:24  The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the
desire of the righteous shall be granted.
 10:25  As the whirlwind passeth, so [is] the wicked no [more]:
but the righteous [is] an everlasting foundation.
 10:26  As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so
[is] the sluggard to them that send him.
 10:27  The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of
the wicked shall be shortened.
 10:28  The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness: but the
expectation of the wicked shall perish.
 10:29  The way of the LORD [is] strength to the upright: but
destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.
 10:30  The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked
shall not inhabit the earth.
 10:31  The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the
froward tongue shall be cut out.
 10:32  The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but
the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] frowardness.
 11:1  A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just
weight [is] his delight.
 11:2  [When] pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the
lowly [is] wisdom.
 11:3  The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the
perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
 11:4  Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness
delivereth from death.
 11:5  The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way:
but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
 11:6  The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but
transgressors shall be taken in [their own] naughtiness.
 11:7  When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall perish:
and the hope of unjust [men] perisheth.
 11:8  The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the
wicked cometh in his stead.
 11:9  An hypocrite with [his] mouth destroyeth his neighbour:
but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
 11:10  When it goeth well with the righteous, the city
rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, [there is] shouting.
 11:11  By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but
it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
 11:12  He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but
a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
 11:13  A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a
faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
 11:14  Where no counsel [is], the people fall: but in the
multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.
 11:15  He that is surety for a stranger shall smart [for it]:
and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
 11:16  A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong [men]
retain riches.
 11:17  The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he
that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh.
 11:18  The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that
soweth righteousness [shall be] a sure reward.
 11:19  As righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth
evil [pursueth it] to his own death.
 11:20  They that are of a froward heart [are] abomination to
the LORD: but [such as are] upright in [their] way [are] his
delight.
 11:21  [Though] hand [join] in hand, the wicked shall not be
unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
 11:22  [As] a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, [so is] a fair
woman which is without discretion.
 11:23  The desire of the righteous [is] only good: [but] the
expectation of the wicked [is] wrath.
 11:24  There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and
[there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth]
to poverty.
 11:25  The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that
watereth shall be watered also himself.
 11:26  He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him:
but blessing [shall be] upon the head of him that selleth [it].
 11:27  He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but
he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
 11:28  He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the
righteous shall flourish as a branch.
 11:29  He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind:
and the fool [shall be] servant to the wise of heart.
 11:30  The fruit of the righteous [is] a tree of life; and he
that winneth souls [is] wise.
 11:31  Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the
earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.