Proverbs 10:13–14

³A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.

³²But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

⁴The 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.

¹⁰He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

¹¹The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

²¹The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

³¹The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

²³A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

⁷The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

¹⁰A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

²⁹Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

¹⁵There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

²²Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

⁹Be 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.

²²And 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?

²²He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

¹²¶ 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.

⁸The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

⁷A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

³He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

¹⁰He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

⁹Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

⁶For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁷But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

³⁵A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

⁴⁴¶ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

⁵²Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

⁵A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

¹THROUGH desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

¹⁵The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

⁸He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

²³Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.