1. Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
2. A good man obtaineth favour of Jehovah; but a man of mischievous devices will he condemn.
3. A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
4. A woman of worth is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
5. The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
6. The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
7. Overthrow the wicked, and they are no more; but the house of the righteous shall stand.
8. A man is commended according to his wisdom; but he that is of a perverted heart shall be despised.