The Proverbs

001	My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother	1:8
002	Wisdom calls aloud outside; she raises her voice in the open squares, She cries out in the chief concourses, at the opening of the gates in the city, she speaks her words	1:20-21
003	Turn at my reproof; surely, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you	1:23
004	For the LORD gives wisdom, from His mouth come knowledge and understanding	2:6
005	Let not mercy and truth forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart	3:3
006	Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths	3:5-6
007	Honour the LORD with your possessions, and with the first fruits of all your increase	3:9
008	So, your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine	3:10
009	She (wisdom) is more precious than rubies, and all the things you may desire cannot compare with her	3:15
010	The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding He established the heavens	3:19
011	Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes;	3:25
012	The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be legacy of fools	3:35
013	Let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eyelids look right before you	4:25
014	Remove your way far from her (an immoral woman), and do not go near the door of her house	5:8
015	Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, which having no captain, overseer or ruler, provides her supplies in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest	6:6
016	My son keep your father’s command, and do not forsake the law of your mother	6:20
017	Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, nor let her allure you with her eyelids	6:25
018	Bind them (God’s words) on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart,	7:3
019	Say to wisdoms, “You are my sister, and call understanding your nearest kin	7:4
020	For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things one may desire cannot be compared with her	8:11
021	The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding	9:10
022	A wise son makes a glad father, but a poolish son is the grief of his mother	10:1
023	Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death	10:2
024	He who deals with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes one rich	10:4
025	The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot	10:7
026	Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins	10:12
027	The blessing of the LORD makes on rich, and He adds no sorrow with it	10:22
028	The fear of the wicked will come upon him, and the desire of the righteous will be granted	10:24
029	The fear of the LORD prolongs days, but the years of the wicked will be shortened	10:27
030	The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not inhabit the earth	10:30
031	Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death	11:4
032	Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety	11:14
033	He who is surety for a stranger will suffer for it, but one who hates being surety is secure	11:15
034	The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters will also be watered himself	11:25
035	The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise	11:30
036	The hand of the diligent will rule, but the slothful will be put to forced labour	12:24
037	The slothful man does not roast what he took in hunting, But diligence is man’s precious possession	12:27
038	In the way of righteousness is life, and in its pathway, there is no death	12:28
039	He who guards his mouth preserves his life, but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction	13:3
040	A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful ambassador brings health	13:17
041	He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed	13:20
042	A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children. But the wealth of the sinners is stored up for the righteous	13:22
043	Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish pulls it down with her hands	14:1
044	There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death	14:12
045	The poor man is hated even by his own neighbour, but the rich has many friends	14:20
046	He who despises his neighbour sins, but he who has mercy on the poor, happy is he	14:21
047	In all labour there is profit, but idle chatter leads only to poverty	14:23
048	The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness	15:2
049	A fool despises his father’s instruction, but he who receives reproof is prudent	15:5
050	The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but he who loves Him who follows righteousness	15:9
051	A wrathful man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger allays contention	15:18
052	The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but the words of the pure are pleasant	15:26
053	When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him	16:7
054	Pride goes before destructions, and a haughty spirit before a fall	16:18
055	A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates the best of friends	16:28
056	He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city	16:32
057	He who mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, He who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished	17:5
058	Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from his house	17:13
059	A merry heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones	17:22
060	Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; when he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive	17:28
061	Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, and before honour is humility	18:12
062	A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth, and from the produce of his lips he shall be filled	18:20
063	Death and life are in the power of tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit	18:21
064	He who finds a wife finds a good thing, an obtains favour from the LORD	18:22
065	All the brothers of the poor hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him!	19:7
066	He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, and He will pay back what he has given	19:17
067	There are many plans in a man’s heart, nevertheless the LORD’s counsel- that will stand	19:21
068	Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools	19:29
069	Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness	20:20
070	The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inner depths of his heart	20:27
071	The glory of young men is their strength, and the slender of old men is their Gray head	20:29
072	The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD	21:1
073	Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts	21:2
074	To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice	21:3
075	Whoever guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from troubles	21:23
076	Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it	22:6
077	The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender	22:7
078	Do not rob the poor because he is poor, nor oppress the afflicted at the gate	22:22
079	Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with a rod, he will not die	23:13
080	You shall beat him with a rod, and deliver his soul from hell	23:14
081	Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old	23:22
082	My son give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways	23:26
083	For a harlot is a deep pit, and a seductress is a narrow well	23:27
084	Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who linger long at the wine, those who go in search of mixed wine	23:29-30
085	If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small	24:10
086	For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity	24:16
087	Do not fret because of evildoers. Nor be envious of the wicked	24:19
088	It is not good to show partiality in judgment	24:23
089	If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, For so you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the LORD will reward you	25:21-22
090	it is better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, than in a house shared with a contentious woman	25:24
091	It is not good to eat much honey; so, to seek one’s own glory is not glory	25:27
092	Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him	26:27
093	Open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed	27:5
094	Hell, and destruction are never full; so, the eyes of man are never satisfied	27:20
095	Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and attend to your herds;	27:23
096	For riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to all generations	27:24
097	The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion	28:1
098	Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than one perverse in his ways, though he be rich	28:6
099	One who increases his possessions by usury and extortion, gathers it for him who will pity the poor	28:8
100	He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy	28:13
101	Whoever robs his father of his mother, and says, “It is no transgression, the same is companion to a destroyer	28:24
102	He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the LORD will be prospered	28:25
103	He who gives to the poor will not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses	28:27
104	When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, the people groan	29:2
105	The king establishes the land by justice, but he who receives bribes overthrows it	29:4
106	The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother	29:15
107	An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds I transgression	29:22
108	A man’s pride will bring him low, but the humble in spirit will retain honour	29:23
109	Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him	30:5
110	Do not add to His words, let He reprove you, and you be found a liar	30:6
111	Remove falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches- feed me with the food You prescribe for me; let I be full and deny You, and say, “Who is the LORD? Or lest I be poor and steal, and profane the name of my God	30:8-9
112	The eye that mocks his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out, and the young eagles will eat it	30:17
113	There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise; (the ants; the badgers; the locusts; and the spiders/lizard)	30:24-28
114	Who can find a virtuous wife? for her worth is far above rubies	31:10
	Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised	31:30