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| [1]Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. |
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| [2]For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lips speak mischief. |
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| [3]Through wisdom is an house builded, and with understanding it is established. |
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| [4]And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious, and pleasant riches. |
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| [5]A wise man is strong: for a man of understanding increaseth his strength. |
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| [6]For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy war, and in the multitude of them that can give counsel, is health. |
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| [7]Wisdom is high to a fool: therefore he cannot open his mouth in the gate. |
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| [8]He that imagineth to do evil, men shall call him an author of wickedness. |
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| [9]The wicked thought of a fool is sin, and the scorner is an abomination unto men. |
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| [10]If thou be faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. |
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| [11]Deliver them that are drawn to death: wilt thou not preserve them that are led to be slain? |
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| [12]If thou say, Behold, we knew not of it: he that pondereth the hearts, doth not he understand it? And he that keepeth thy soul, knoweth he it not? Will not he also recompense every man according to his works? |
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| [13]My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb, for it is sweet unto thy mouth. |
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| [14]So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul, if thou find it, and there shall be an end, and thine hope shall not be cut off. |
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| [15]Lay no wait, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoil not his resting place. |
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| [16]For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth again: but the wicked fall into mischief. |
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| [17]Be thou not glad when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart rejoice when he stumbleth, |
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| [18]Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn his wrath from him. |
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| [19]Fret not thyself because of the malicious, neither be envious at the wicked. |
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| [20]For there shall be none end of plagues to the evil man: the light of the wicked shall be put out. |
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| [21]My son, fear the Lord, and the king, and meddle not with them that are seditious. |
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| [22]For their destruction shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them both? |
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| [23]Also these things pertain to the wise, It is not good to have respect of any person in judgment. |
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| [24]He that saith to the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, and the multitude shall abhor him. |
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| [25]But to them that rebuke him, shall be pleasure, and upon them shall come the blessing of goodness. |
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| [26]They shall kiss the lips of him that answereth upright words. |
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| [27]Prepare thy work without, and make ready thy things in the field, and after, build thine house. |
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| [28]Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause: for wilt thou deceive with thy lips? |
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| [29]Say not, I will do to him, as he hath done to me, I will recompense every man according to his work. |
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| [30]I passed by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man destitute of understanding. |
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| [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. |
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| [32]Then I beheld, and I considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. |
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| [33]Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. |
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| [34]So thy poverty cometh as one that travaileth by the way, and thy necessity like an armed man. |
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