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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10A reproof (rebuke; scolding) enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

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

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

13Whoso rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

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

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

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

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

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

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

20He that has a perverse (twisted) [habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition] heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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