1. Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof [is] brutish.
2. The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.
3. A man is not established by wickedness, And the root of the righteous is not moved.
4. A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones [is] one causing shame.
5. The thoughts of the righteous [are] justice, The counsels of the wicked--deceit.
6. The words of the wicked [are]: `Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.
7. Overthrow the wicked, and they are not, And the house of the righteous standeth.
8. According to his wisdom is a man praised, And the perverted of heart becometh despised.