1: Don't envy bad people; don't even want to be around them.
2: All they think about is causing a disturbance; all they talk about is making trouble.
3: It takes wisdom to build a house, and understanding to set it on a firm foundation;
4: It takes knowledge to furnish its rooms with fine furniture and beautiful draperies.
5: It's better to be wise than strong; intelligence outranks muscle any day.
6: Strategic planning is the key to warfare; to win, you need a lot of good counsel.
7: Wise conversation is way over the head of fools; in a serious discussion they haven't a clue.
8: The person who's always cooking up some evil soon gets a reputation as prince of rogues.
9: Fools incubate sin; cynics desecrate beauty.
10: If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn't much to you in the first place.
11: Rescue the perishing; don't hesitate to step in and help.
12: If you say, "Hey, that's none of my business," will that get you off the hook? Someone is watching you closely, you know--Someone not impressed with weak excuses.
13: Eat honey, dear child--it's good for you--and delicacies that melt in your mouth.
14: Likewise knowledge, and wisdom for your soul--Get that and your future's secured, your hope is on solid rock.
15: Don't interfere with good people's lives; don't try to get the best of them.
16: No matter how many times you trip them up, God-loyal people don't stay down long; Soon they're up on their feet, while the wicked end up flat on their faces.
17: Don't laugh when your enemy falls; don't crow over his collapse.
18: GOD might see, and become very provoked, and then take pity on his plight.
19: Don't bother your head with braggarts or wish you could succeed like the wicked.
20: Those people have no future at all; they're headed down a dead-end street.
21: Fear GOD, dear child--respect your leaders; don't be defiant or mutinous.
22: Without warning your life can turn upside-down, and who knows how or when it might happen? More Sayings of the Wise
23: It's wrong, very wrong, to go along with injustice.
24: Whoever whitewashes the wicked gets a black mark in the history books,
25: But whoever exposes the wicked will be thanked and rewarded.
26: An honest answer is like a warm hug.
27: First plant your fields; then build your barn.
28: Don't talk about your neighbors behind their backs--no slander or gossip, please.
29: Don't say to anyone, "I'll get back at you for what you did to me. I'll make you pay for what you did!"
30: One day I walked by the field of an old lazybones, and then passed the vineyard of a lout;
31: They were overgrown with weeds, thick with thistles, all the fences broken down.
32: I took a long look and pondered what I saw; the fields preached me a sermon and I listened:
33: "A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy--do you know what comes next?
34: Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, with poverty as your permanent houseguest!" Further Wise Sayings of Solomon The Right Word at the Right Time