Wherefore [is there] a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to it]?
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
A man void of understanding striketh hands, [and] becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: [and] he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Wisdom [is] before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool [are] in the ends of the earth.
A foolish son [is] a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
