When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

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

Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

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

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

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.

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.