- 1. Bee not thou enuious against euill men, neither desire to be with them.
- 2. For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.
- 3. Through wisdome is an house builded, and with vnderstanding it is established.
- 4. And by knowledge shall the chambers bee filled with all precious, and pleasant riches.
- 5. A wise man is strong: for a man of vnderstanding encreaseth his strength.
- 6. For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy warre, and in the multitude of them that can giue counsell, is health.
- 7. Wisdome is hie to a foole: therefore he can not open his mouth in the gate.
- 8. Hee that imagineth to doe euill, men shall call him an autour of wickednes.
- 9. The wicked thought of a foole is sinne, and the scorner is an abomination vnto men.
- 10. If thou bee faint in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.
- 11. Deliuer them that are drawen to death: wilt thou not preserue them that are led to be slaine?
- 12. If thou say, Beholde, we knew not of it: he that pondereth the heartes, doeth not hee vnderstand it? And hee that keepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? Will not he also recompense euery man according to his workes?
- 13. My sonne, eate hony, for it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth.
- 14. So shall the knowledge of wisdome be vnto thy soule, if thou finde it, and there shall be an ende, and thine hope shall not be cut off.
- 15. Laye no waite, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.
- 16. For a iust man falleth seuen times, and riseth againe: but the wicked fall into mischiefe.
- 17. Bee thou not glad when thine enemie falleth, and let not thine heart reioyce when hee stumbleth,
- 18. Least the Lorde see it, and it displease him, and he turne his wrath from him.
- 19. Fret not thy selfe because of the malicious, neither be enuious at the wicked.
- 20. For there shall bee none ende of plagues to the euill man: the light of the wicked shall bee put out.
- 21. My sonne feare the Lord, and the King, and meddle not with them that are sedicious.
- 22. For their destruction shal rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruine of them both?
- 23. Also these things perteine to the wise, It is not good to haue respect of any person in iudgement.
- 24. He that saith to the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, and the multitude shall abhorre him.
- 25. But to them that rebuke him, shall be pleasure, and vpon them shall come the blessing of goodnesse.
- 26. They shall kisse the lippes of him that answereth vpright wordes.
- 27. Prepare thy worke without, and make readie thy thinges in the fielde, and after, builde thine house.
- 28. Be not a witnes against thy neighbour without cause: for wilt thou deceiue with thy lippes?
- 29. Say not, I wil doe to him, as he hath done to mee, I will recompence euery man according to his worke.
- 30. I passed by the fielde of the slouthfull, and by the vineyarde of the man destitute of vnderstanding.
- 31. And lo, it was al growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken downe.
- 32. Then I behelde, and I considered it well: I looked vpon it, and receiued instruction.
- 33. Yet a litle sleepe, a litle slumber, a litle folding of the handes to sleepe.
- 34. So thy pouertie commeth as one that traueileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed man.
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