A workman that is a drunkard shall not become rich:

2 Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away:

3 Moths and worms shall have him to heritage;

4 He that is hasty to trust is light-minded;

5 He that maketh merry in his heart shall be condemned:

6 And he that hateth talk hath the less wickedness.

7 Never repeat what is told thee,

8 Whether it be of friend or foe, tell it not;

9 For he hath heard thee, and observed thee,

10 Hast thou heard a word? let it die with thee:

11 A fool will travail in pain with a word,

12 As an arrow that sticketh in the flesh of the thigh,

13 Reprove a friend; it may be he did it not:

14 Reprove thy neighbor; it may be he said it not:

15 Reprove a friend; for many times there is slander:

16 There is one that slippeth, and not from the heart:

17 Reprove thy neighbor before thou threaten him;

20 All wisdom is the fear of the Lord;

22 And the knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom;

23 There is a wickedness, and the same is abomination;

24 Better is one that hath small understanding, and feareth,

25 There is an exquisite subtlety, and the same is unjust;

26 There is one that doeth wickedly, that hangeth down his head with mourning;

27 Bowing down his face, and making as if he were deaf of one ear:

28 And if for want of power he be hindered from sinning,

29 A man shall be known by his look,

30 A man’s attire, and grinning laughter,