1Do not emulate the wicked or desire their friendship;
2for violence is all they think of, and mischief is ever on their lips.
3Wisdom builds the house, good judgement makes it secure,
4knowledge fills the rooms with costly and pleasing furnishings.
5Wisdom prevails over strength, knowledge over brute force;
6for wars are won by skilful strategy, and victory is the fruit of detailed planning.
7Wisdom is too lofty for a fool to grasp; he remains tongue-tied in the public assembly.
8Whoever is bent on mischief gets a name for intrigue;
9the intrigues of the foolish misfire, and the insolent are odious to their fellows.
10If you have shown yourself weak at a time of crisis, how limited is your strength!
11Rescue those being dragged away to death, and save those being hauled off to execution.
12If you say, “But this person I do not know,” God, who fixes a standard for the heart, will take note; he who watches you will know; he will repay everyone according to what he does.
13Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate.
14Seek wisdom for yourself; if you find it, you may look forward to the future, and your thread of life will not be cut short.
15Do not lie in wait like a felon at the upright person's house, or raid his homestead.
16Though he may fall seven times, he is soon up again, but the rogue is brought headlong by misfortune.
17Do not rejoice at the fall of your enemy; do not gloat when he is brought down,
18or the LORD will be displeased at the sight, and will cease to be angry with him.
19Do not vie with evildoers or emulate the wicked;
20for those who are evil can expect no future; their lamp will be extinguished.
21My son, fear the LORD and fear the king. Have nothing to do with persons of high rank;
22they will come to sudden disaster, and who knows what their ruin will entail?
23More sayings of the wise: Partiality in dispensing justice is invidious.
24A judge who pronounces the guilty innocent is cursed by nations, and peoples denounce him;
25but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and they will be blessed with prosperity.
26A straightforward answer is as good as a kiss of friendship.
27Put in order your work out of doors and make everything ready on the land; after that build yourself a home.
28Do not testify against your neighbour without good reason or misrepresent him in your evidence.
29Do not say, “I shall do to him as he has done to me; I am paying off an old score.”
30I passed by the field of an idle fellow, by the vineyard of someone with no sense.
31I looked, and it was all overgrown with thistles; it was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.
32I saw and I took it to heart, I considered and learnt the lesson:
33a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands in rest --
34and poverty will come on you like a footpad, want will assail you like a hardened ruffian.
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