[1]  Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

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[2]  A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brothers.

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[3]  The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.

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[4]  A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear to a naughty tongue.

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[5]  Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

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[6]  Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

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[7]  Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

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[8]  A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that has it: wherever it turns, it prospers.

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[9]  He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.

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[10]  A reproof enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

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[11]  An evil man seeks only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

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[12]  Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

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[13]  Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

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[14]  The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

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[15]  He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

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[16]  Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no heart to it?

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[17]  A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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[18]  A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes surety in the presence of his friend.

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[19]  He loves transgression that loves strife: and he that exalts his gate seeks destruction.

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[20]  He that has a fraudulent heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.

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[21]  He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.

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[22]  A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

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[23]  A wicked man takes a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

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[24]  Wisdom is before him that has understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

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[25]  A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

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[26]  Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

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[27]  He that has knowledge spares his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

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[28]  Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

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