4:2 Because I give you good instruction,
do not forsake my teaching.
4:3 When I was a son to my father,
a tender only child before my mother,
5:7 So now, children, listen to me;
do not turn aside from the words I speak.
5:12 And you will say, “How I hated discipline!
My heart spurned reproof!
5:14 I almost came to complete ruin
in the midst of the whole congregation!”
7:6 For at the window of my house
through my window lattice I looked out
7:16 I have spread my bed with elegant coverings,
with richly colored fabric from Egypt.
7:24 So now, sons, listen to me,
and pay attention to the words I speak.
8:4 “To you, O people, I call out,
and my voice calls to all mankind.
8:6 Listen, for I will speak excellent things,
and my lips will utter what is right.
8:14 Counsel and sound wisdom belong to me;
I possess understanding and might.
8:17 I love those who love me,
and those who seek me find me.
8:20 I walk in the path of righteousness,
in the pathway of justice,
8:23 From eternity I was appointed,
from the beginning, from before the world existed.
8:25 before the mountains were set in place –
before the hills – I was born,
9:5 “Come, eat some of my food,
and drink some of the wine I have mixed.
22:20 Have I not written thirty sayings for you,
sayings of counsel and knowledge,
24:30 I passed by the field of a sluggard,
by the vineyard of one who lacks wisdom.
26:19 so is a person who deceives his neighbor,
and says, “Was I not only joking?”
30:18 There are three things that are too wonderful for me,
four that I do not understand: