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For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.