23:12 There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins. 23:13 Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the word of sin. 23:14 Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy nativity. 23:15 The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words will never be reformed all the days of his life. 23:16 Two sorts of men multiply sin, and the third will bring wrath: a hot mind is as a burning fire, it will never be quenched till it be consumed: a fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he hath kindled a fire. 23:17 All bread is sweet to a whoremonger, he will not leave off till he die. 23:18 A man that breaketh wedlock, saying thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about with darkness, the walls cover me, and no body seeth me; what need I to fear? the most High will not remember my sins: 23:19 Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most secret parts. 23:20 He knew all things ere ever they were created; so also after they were perfected he looked upon them all. 23:21 This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and where he suspecteth not he shall be taken. 23:22 Thus shall it go also with the wife that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an heir by another. 23:23 For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; and secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; and thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, and brought children by another man. 23:24 She shall be brought out into the congregation, and inquisition shall be made of her children. 23:25 Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit. 23:26 She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her reproach shall not be blotted out. 23:27 And they that remain shall know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord, and that there is nothing sweeter than to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord. 23:28 It is great glory to follow the Lord, and to be received of him is long life. 24:1 Wisdom shall praise herself, and shall glory in the midst of her people. 24:2 In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power. 24:3 I came out of the mouth of the most High, and covered the earth as a cloud. 24:4 I dwelt in high places, and my throne is in a cloudy pillar. 24:5 I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the bottom of the deep. 24:6 In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every people and nation, I got a possession.