A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

{But} whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he {that} doeth it destroyeth his own soul. {understanding: Heb. heart}

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to {him that is} weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. {of wisdom: Heb. of heart}

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish {doeth} not so.

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word {spoken} in due season, how good {is it}! {due...: Heb. his season}

The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. {entereth...: or, aweth more a wise man, than to strike a fool an hundred times}

There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge {are} a precious jewel.

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. {fall: Heb. be beaten}

Be ye not as the horse, {or} as the mule, {which} have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, {yet} will not his foolishness depart from him.

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, {even} all that the hail hath left.

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; {straightway: Heb. suddenly}

And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

The words of a wise man's mouth {are} gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. {gracious: Heb. grace}

The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, {the youths: Heb. the sons}

And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. {taught: Heb. made to know}

Thy lips {are} like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech {is} comely: thy temples {are} like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

For {it is} a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. {within...: Heb. in thy belly}

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;