¹The proverbs of Solomon.

A wise son pleases his father;

A foolish son is his mother's grief.

²The lucre from wrongdoing is of no profit,

But righteousness delivers from death.

³The Lord will not let a righteous person go hungry,

But he repudiates the ambition of the wicked.

⁴A negligent hand makes one impoverished,

But the hand of the industrious enriches.

⁵He who gathers store in the harvest time is an intelligent son;

He who falls asleep in the harvest time is a shameful son.

⁶Blessings come onto the head of the righteous man,

But violence envelops the mouth of the wicked.

⁷The memory of the righteous is a blessing,

But the name of the wicked will rot.

⁸The wise in heart accepts commandments,

But the loquacious fool will flounder.

⁹He who walks with integrity walks securely,

But he who perverts his ways will be identified.

¹⁰He who winks with the eye causes sorrow,

And the loquacious fool will flounder.

¹¹The mouth of a righteous man is the source of life,

But the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

¹²Hatred arouses strife,

¹³In the lips of the astute man, wisdom is found,

But a rod is applicable to the back of the weak-minded.

¹⁴The wise treasure up knowledge,

But ruin is close to the mouth of the fool.

¹⁵The wealth of the rich is his strong city;

The ruination of the poor is their poverty.

¹⁶The recompense of the righteous is life,

But the product of the wicked is sin.

¹⁷He who retains instruction has the way of life,

But he who forsakes reproof leads astray.

¹⁸He who conceals hatred with lying lips,

Or he who spreads slander,

Is a fool.

¹⁹In the abundance of words,

Transgression does not cease,

But he who is sparing with his lips

Is intelligent.

²⁰The tongue of the righteous man is choice silver;

The heart of the wicked is hardly so.

²¹The lips of the righteous act as a shepherd to many,

But fools will die in weak-mindedness.

²²The blessing of the Lord enriches,

And he does not add sorrow to it.

²³It is like a sport to a fool

To devise fraud,

But a man of understanding has wisdom.

²⁴What the wicked man fears will come upon him,

But he will grant the wish of the righteous.

²⁵When the whirlwind passes over,

There will not be any wicked,

But the righteous man is an age-abiding foundation.

²⁶As vinegar to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes,

So is the lazy man to those who send him on an assignment.

²⁷Fear of the Lord adds to one's days,

But the years of the wicked will be curtailed.

²⁸The expectation of the righteous is happiness,

But the hope of the wicked will perish.

²⁹The way of the Lord is a fortress to the man with integrity,

But ruination to those who perpetrate iniquity.

³⁰The righteous man will never falter,

But the wicked will not inhabit the earth.

³¹The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom,

But a subversive tongue will be cut off.

³²The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing,

But the mouth of the wicked only knows subversive things.

Reference(s) in Chapter 10: v.12 ↔ 1 Peter 4:8.