These proverbs are for gaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight;

For they run toward evil; these enticers shed blood without hesitation.

And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.

For length of days and years of life [worth living]
And tranquility and prosperity [the wholeness of life’s blessings] they will add to you.

My son, let not these things depart from thine eyes, but keep my law and my counsel:

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these are an abomination to Jehovah.

Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

To use two manner of weights, or two manner of measures, both these are abominable unto the LORD.

For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.

So that your trust and reliance and confidence may be in the Lord,
I have taught these things to you today, even to you.

for destruction from them will come suddenly;
who knows what distress these two can bring?

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

The righteous person knows the rights of the poor,
but the wicked one does not understand these concerns.

For the leech, [there are] two daughters; "Give, give!" [they cry]. As for three of these, they are not satisfied; as for four, they do not say enough.

Three of these are [too] wonderful for me, and four, I do not understand them:

These are the words of king Lemuel, and the Prophecy that his mother taught him.