1. The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; / 2. To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; / 3. To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; {equity: Heb. →

1. My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; / 2. So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, {and} apply thine heart to understanding; / 3. Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, {and} liftest up thy voice for understanding; {liftest. →

1. My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: / 2. For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. {long...: Heb. years of life} / 3. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: →

1. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. / 2. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. / 3. For I was my father's son, tender and only {beloved} in the sight of my mother. →

1. My son, attend unto my wisdom, {and} bow thine ear to my understanding: / 2. That thou mayest regard discretion, and {that} thy lips may keep knowledge. / 3. For the lips of a strange woman drop {as} an honeycomb, and her mouth {is} smoother than oil: {mouth: Heb. →

1. My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, {if} thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, / 2. Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. / 3. Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. →

1. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. / 2. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. / 3. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. →

1. Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? / 2. She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. / 3. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. →

1. Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: / 2. She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. {her beasts: Heb. her killing} / 3. She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, →

1. The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son {is} the heaviness of his mother. / 2. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. / 3. →

1. A false balance {is} abomination to the LORD: but a just weight {is} his delight. {A false...: Heb. Balances of deceit} {just...: Heb. perfect stone} / 2. {When} pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly {is} wisdom. →

1. Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof {is} brutish. / 2. A good {man} obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. / 3. A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. →

1. A wise son {heareth} his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. / 2. A man shall eat good by the fruit of {his} mouth: but the soul of the transgressors {shall eat} violence. / 3. He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: {but} he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction. →

1. Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. / 2. He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but {he that is} perverse in his ways despiseth him. / 3. →

1. A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. / 2. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. {poureth: Heb. belcheth, or, bubbleth} →

1. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, {is} from the LORD. {preparations: or, disposings} / 2. All the ways of a man {are} clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. →

1. Better {is} a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices {with} strife. {sacrifices: or, good cheer} / 2. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren. →

1. Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh {and} intermeddleth with all wisdom. {Through...: or, He that separateth himself seeketh according to his desire, and intermeddleth in every business} →

1. Better {is} the poor that walketh in his integrity, than {he that is} perverse in his lips, and is a fool. / 2. Also, {that} the soul {be} without knowledge, {it is} not good; and he that hasteth with {his} feet sinneth. →

1. Wine {is} a mocker, strong drink {is} raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. / 2. The fear of a king {is} as the roaring of a lion: {whoso} provoketh him to anger sinneth {against} his own soul. →

1. The king's heart {is} in the hand of the LORD, {as} the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. / 2. Every way of a man {is} right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. / 3. →

1. A {good} name {is} rather to be chosen than great riches, {and} loving favour rather than silver and gold. {loving...: or, favour is better than, etc} / 2. The rich and poor meet together: the LORD {is} the maker of them all. →

1. When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what {is} before thee: / 2. And put a knife to thy throat, if thou {be} a man given to appetite. / 3. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they {are} deceitful meat. →

1. Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. / 2. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. / 3. Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: →

1. These {are} also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. / 2. {It is} the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings {is} to search out a matter. / 3. The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings {is} unsearchable. →

1. As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool. / 2. As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. / 3. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. →

1. Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. {to...: Heb. to morrow day} / 2. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. →

1. The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. / 2. For the transgression of a land many {are} the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding {and} knowledge the state {thereof} shall be prolonged. →

1. He, that being often reproved hardeneth {his} neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. {He...: Heb. A man of reproofs} / 2. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. →

1. The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, {even} the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, / 2. Surely I {am} more brutish than {any} man, and have not the understanding of a man. →

1. The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. / 2. What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? / 3. Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. →