| A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. | A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. |
| The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender. | The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. |
|
| Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice. | Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. |
| Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. | Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. |
| Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. | Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts. |
| The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. | By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life. |
| Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. |
| There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. | There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. |
| A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. | A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. |
| The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. | Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. |
| The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult. | A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame. |
| A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. | A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. |
| A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back. | A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. |
| Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce. | Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase. |
| Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. | Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. |
| Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. | Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. |
| My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching. | My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother. |
| To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is! | A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it! |
| Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor. | Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility. |
| A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. | A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. |
| Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path. | Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. |
| Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince. | Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. |
| It is a snare to say rashly, “It is holy,” and to reflect only after making vows. | It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry. |
| The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot. | The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. |
| A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. | A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. |
