Proverbs Commentary

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;