| A fool’s wrath is known at once, But a prudent man covers shame. | A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame. |
| Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the Lord. | House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord. |
|
| A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself; The simple pass on and are punished. | A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. |
| A fool despises his father’s instruction, But he who receives correction is prudent. | A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. |
| In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, But he who restrains his lips is wise. | In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise. |
| Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them. | Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. |
