✧Better [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 causeth 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 trieth the hearts. ✧4A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; [and] a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue. ✧5Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth 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 becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. ✧8A gift [is as] a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth. ✧9He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth [very] friends. ✧10A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. ✧11An evil [man] seeketh 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 rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. ✧14The beginning of strife [is as] when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. ✧15He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both [are] abomination to the LORD. ✧16Wherefore [is there] a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to it]? ✧17A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ✧18A man void of understanding striketh hands, [and] becometh surety in the presence of his friend. ✧19He loveth transgression that loveth strife: [and] he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction. ✧20He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief. ✧21He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy. ✧22A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. ✧23A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. ✧24Wisdom [is] before him that hath 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 hath knowledge spareth his words: [and] a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. ✧28Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: [and] he that shutteth his lips [is esteemed] a man of understanding.