1:10 My child, if sinners try to entice you,
do not consent!
1:25 because you neglected all my advice,
and did not comply with my rebuke,
2:3 indeed, if you call out for discernment –
raise your voice for understanding –
2:4 if you seek it like silver,
and search for it like hidden treasure,
2:9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice
and equity – every good way.
2:10 For wisdom will enter your heart,
and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.
2:12 to deliver you from the way of the wicked,
from those speaking perversity,
2:16 to deliver you from the adulteress,
from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;
3:4 Then you will find favor and good understanding,
in the sight of God and people.
3:22 So they will give life to you,
and grace to adorn your neck.
3:25 You will not be afraid of sudden disaster,
or when destruction overtakes the wicked;
3:27 Do not withhold good from those who need it,
when you have the ability to help.
3:29 Do not plot evil against your neighbor
when he dwells by you unsuspectingly.
3:30 Do not accuse anyone without legitimate cause,
if he has not treated you wrongly.
4:2 Because I give you good instruction,
do not forsake my teaching.
4:7 Wisdom is supreme – so acquire wisdom,
and whatever you acquire, acquire understanding!
5:9 lest you give your vigor to others
and your years to a cruel person,
5:12 And you will say, “How I hated discipline!
My heart spurned reproof!
5:17 Let them be for yourself alone,
and not for strangers with you.
5:18 May your fountain be blessed,
and may you rejoice in your young wife –
6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
observe its ways and be wise!
6:24 by keeping you from the evil woman,
from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
7:4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call understanding a close relative,
8:4 “To you, O people, I call out,
and my voice calls to all mankind.
8:33 Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise,
and do not neglect it.
9:6 Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live,
and proceed in the way of understanding.”
14:7 Leave the presence of a foolish person,
or you will not understand wise counsel.
22:20 Have I not written thirty sayings for you,
sayings of counsel and knowledge,
22:25 lest you learn his ways
and entangle yourself in a snare.
23:2 and put a knife to your throat
if you possess a large appetite.
23:11 for their Protector is strong;
he will plead their case against you.
23:25 May your father and your mother have joy;
may she who bore you rejoice.
24:6 for with guidance you wage your war,
and with numerous advisers there is victory.
24:10 If you faint in the day of trouble,
your strength is small!
25:9 When you argue a case with your neighbor,
do not reveal the secret of another person,
26:4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
lest you yourself also be like him.
27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow;
for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
27:2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
someone else, and not your own lips.
30:7 Two things I ask from you;
do not refuse me before I die: