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[1] Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
[2] For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lips speak mischief.
[3] Through wisdom is an house builded, and with understanding it is established.
[4] And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious, and pleasant riches.
[5] A wise man is strong: for a man of understanding increaseth his strength.
[6] For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy war, and in the multitude of them that can give counsel, is health.
[7] Wisdom is high to a fool: therefore he cannot open his mouth in the gate.
[8] He that imagineth to do evil, men shall call him an author of wickedness.
[9] The wicked thought of a fool is sin, and the scorner is an abomination unto men.
[10] If thou be faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
[11] Deliver them that are drawn to death: wilt thou not preserve them that are led to be slain?
[12] If thou say, Behold, we knew not of it: he that pondereth the hearts, doth not he understand it? And he that keepeth thy soul, knoweth he it not? Will not he also recompense every man according to his works?
[13] My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb, for it is sweet unto thy mouth.
[14] So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul, if thou find it, and there shall be an end, and thine hope shall not be cut off.
[15] Lay no wait, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoil not his resting place.
[16] For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth again: but the wicked fall into mischief.
[17] Be thou not glad when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart rejoice when he stumbleth,
[18] Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn his wrath from him.
[19] Fret not thyself because of the malicious, neither be envious at the wicked.
[20] For there shall be none end of plagues to the evil man: the light of the wicked shall be put out.
[21] My son, fear the Lord, and the king, and meddle not with them that are seditious.
[22] For their destruction shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
[23] Also these things pertain to the wise, It is not good to have respect of any person in judgment.
[24] He that saith to the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, and the multitude shall abhor him.
[25] But to them that rebuke him, shall be pleasure, and upon them shall come the blessing of goodness.
[26] They shall kiss the lips of him that answereth upright words.
[27] Prepare thy work without, and make ready thy things in the field, and after, build thine house.
[28] Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause: for wilt thou deceive with thy lips?
[29] Say not, I will do to him, as he hath done to me, I will recompense every man according to his work.
[30] I passed by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man destitute of understanding.
[31] And lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
[32] Then I beheld, and I considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
[33] Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
[34] So thy poverty cometh as one that travaileth by the way, and thy necessity like an armed man.
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