Proverbs

To call passengers who go right on their ways:

For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

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

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.

Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

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

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

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

When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:

When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

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

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.